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An average household budget doesn't have a single earner. When you're broke, you have roommates. In more expensive places, until you find a partner to live with
by nostrebored 5y ago
An average household budget doesn't have a single earner. When you're broke, you have roommates. In more expensive places, until you find a partner to live with you often have roommates.
This isn't a bad thing.
- ChrisLTD 5y agoThe point is, these people shouldn’t be broke. After all, they have full-time work.
- nostrebored 5y agoBroke is an expression here. I've lived in places where people are truly impoverished and I've lived in US cities with low minimum wage. The difference is massive. The fotm is life is better for poor people in the US now than it was even 50 years ago.
- hh3k0 5y ago> This isn't a bad thing. Counterpoint: It absolutely is.
- spicybright 5y agoWhy?
- iamstupidsimple 5y agoSometimes you're forced to live with some truly awful people. It's not always practical to stay with family, e.g. many people moving to the city for work.
- danaris 5y agoThe way our society is set up right now, it is. Our society right now is an outlier. Throughout most of history, people lived much more communally than we do now, and there is good reason to be trying to move back toward that; however, that's a pretty major shift, and it's not going to happen overnight. It's also probably outside of the scope of this discussion.