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Has the cost gone up, or have expectations? None of my friends paid for subscriotions for anything but a landline, cooked moat of their food, and wore years old
by porkbeer 3y ago
Has the cost gone up, or have expectations? None of my friends paid for subscriotions for anything but a landline, cooked moat of their food, and wore years old clothes a couple decades ago. People consume at a much faster rate today.
- vrinsd 3y agoThis might be a US-centric experience so I'm prefacing... Basic cost of living is : rent, food, utilities. Those three have gone up astronomically, especially in the past 3-years. A graduate stipend is probably $22K/year, maybe more for a PhD student. 20-years ago that was reasonable, if rent is $1700/mo you're already underwater given you have to pay taxes on that meager $22K. In my graduate experience, I didn't see most grad students walking around with the latest cell phones, laptops or luxury goods, they struggled with the basics. A number of graduate students at various universities are going on strike and forming unions and honestly more power to them: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-01-02/uc-strike-energizes-labor-surge https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-01-02/uc-strik...