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I London cost of living makes any low payed job unlivable. I wonder of the trend is that people start to realize this? Or that it have gotten so much worse comp

I London cost of living makes any low payed job unlivable. I wonder of the trend is that people start to realize this? Or that it have gotten so much worse compared to 10 years ago.

barry-cotter 4y ago
I imagine if you’re willing to live four to a bedroom things get substantially more affordable. There are plenty of people who are willing to do that, though fewer in the legal economy. If building housing was legal that demand would be satisfied by new building but that’s democracy for you. The people get what they want, good and hard.
- illini1 4y ago
  I’m not sure you can treat the lack of affordable housing as an indictment of democracy as an institution. Of course there’s more nuance to the issue, but it’s not as simple as people get what they want.
  - themitigating 4y ago
    I don't think he meant democracy has failed only that it allows people to create situations that are bad for others.
- rightbyte 4y ago
  Maybe works out when you are in your 20s. But they are part of the problem suppressing wages. Have two friends who did that. I don't think megacities is the solution. I'd rather have a living rural area.
frankfrankfrank 4y ago
It’s why the ruling class keeps importing people from the third world where people have far lower expectations for living standards. In your example of London that manifested itself by the low paying jobs that serve the support the ruling class being filled by people willing to live in multi generational family units and far more people per square footage. It’s not all that different in places like Paris either. What is really going on OSS that aristocracy and slavery are, and really already have been reconstituted in a different form. Importing/exploring brown people to serve the will and whims of the ruling class at the expense of the native/ their own population. If that sounds familiar, it’s because it’s of course exactly the foundations of slavery and aristocracy. And yes, it has gotten worse because the process by which the ruling class had defrauded and swindled trillions of dollars and euros from the pockets of their own abused populations has not faced any opposition at all worth mentioning, let alone something serious.
- rightbyte 4y ago
  > low paying jobs that serve the support the ruling class being filled by people willing to live in multi generational family units You are making it sound coozzy. I'd say 4-10 unrelated 20-30yo males cramed into an apartment is closer too the truth for The Really Cheap Labour.
- taolegal 4y ago
  > It’s why the ruling class keeps importing people from the third world this is the definition of a conspiracy theory

I London cost of living makes any low payed job unlivable. I wonder of the trend is that people start to realize this? Or that it have gotten so much worse compared to 10 years ago.

barry-cotter 4y ago

I imagine if you’re willing to live four to a bedroom things get substantially more affordable. There are plenty of people who are willing to do that, though fewer in the legal economy. If building housing was legal that demand would be satisfied by new building but that’s democracy for you. The people get what they want, good and hard.

illini1 4y ago
I’m not sure you can treat the lack of affordable housing as an indictment of democracy as an institution. Of course there’s more nuance to the issue, but it’s not as simple as people get what they want.
- themitigating 4y ago
  I don't think he meant democracy has failed only that it allows people to create situations that are bad for others.
rightbyte 4y ago
Maybe works out when you are in your 20s. But they are part of the problem suppressing wages. Have two friends who did that. I don't think megacities is the solution. I'd rather have a living rural area.

frankfrankfrank 4y ago

It’s why the ruling class keeps importing people from the third world where people have far lower expectations for living standards. In your example of London that manifested itself by the low paying jobs that serve the support the ruling class being filled by people willing to live in multi generational family units and far more people per square footage. It’s not all that different in places like Paris either. What is really going on OSS that aristocracy and slavery are, and really already have been reconstituted in a different form. Importing/exploring brown people to serve the will and whims of the ruling class at the expense of the native/ their own population. If that sounds familiar, it’s because it’s of course exactly the foundations of slavery and aristocracy. And yes, it has gotten worse because the process by which the ruling class had defrauded and swindled trillions of dollars and euros from the pockets of their own abused populations has not faced any opposition at all worth mentioning, let alone something serious.

rightbyte 4y ago
> low paying jobs that serve the support the ruling class being filled by people willing to live in multi generational family units You are making it sound coozzy. I'd say 4-10 unrelated 20-30yo males cramed into an apartment is closer too the truth for The Really Cheap Labour.
taolegal 4y ago
> It’s why the ruling class keeps importing people from the third world this is the definition of a conspiracy theory