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Living wage is an argument advocated by inherently privileged individuals, you can tell because a livable COL rarely comes up in the same breath. If the person
by 38eueheh 6y ago
Living wage is an argument advocated by inherently privileged individuals, you can tell because a livable COL rarely comes up in the same breath. If the person is alive and doing the job it's a living wage, just because Californians don't like having to confront that their elitist policies are wildly exacerbating the cost of living doesn't mean the job should be disregarded because without it that individual would require even more support or have to leave the state (which most Californians seem fine with because there's nothing prejudice about driving out the poor apparently).
- sjg007 6y agoThere are cheap parts of California to live in, people just don't want to live in them. The real problem is that everyone wants to live in California. I do think that California should build more density but I think covid will temper that for another 10 years.
- 38eueheh 6y agoPeople wanting to live in specific parts of California is only a problem if those places are experiencing a shortage of housing. SF is experiencing a shortage because of zoning regulations like height limitations and similar is the case in SD, there is not a physical lack of land that is precipitating the problem. CoL is also more than rent, food could be cheaper if neighborhoods would quit advantaging local co-ops and eating out could be cheaper if the large cities like SD didn't outright ban cheap food options like meal carts. And that's all before addressing more ethereal aspects like the gas tax that disproportionately hits the state's middle and lower classes the hardest. California is expensive because Californians care more about principals than people.