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The system is broken
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LMAO if you pay 66% of your income on rent then you really need to change something in your life.
While I agree, something needs to change, a lot of people aren't in that spot. Raising rent got them there, and now they can't leave because they'll have to miss rent to have enough to move somewhere else, that's either way too far or just as expensive.
You're just out of touch.
Look at almost any major city in North America and then look at the average annual income vs average rent for a one bedroom. Rents have skyrocketed since COVID. Essentially doubled where I'm from. Think wages kept pace?
You can kindly take your shit opinion elsewhere. Most people who live pay to pay cannot get their life in order because they work 2 jobs.
Get some help.
Exactly! Flipping burgers is meant for KIDS as a first job! But also if I can't get a speedy meal during my noon lunch break while the kids are at school I'm going to be PISSED!
If everyone who flips burgers gets a "better job" are you going to stop having burgers?
The issue is that while there is work that needs to be done, then there will be a need to pay people to do it. If you're a business owner and you have work that needs to be done, and you can't afford to pay your employees enough for them to pay their bills and lube decent lives, and you can't personally take the hit to your own income to cover the difference, then your business should fail.
Right now, the arrangement forces people to work more than 40 hours a week -- which is illegal, but companies get away with it because they don't work at the same company for the whole time. In fact, many people with multiple jobs don't even have full time jobs -- they have 3 part time jobs, all working them less than 40 hours a week, so they don't have to give them the benefits they're required to provide for full time employees.
(Personally, when I was young I had multiple places scheduling me for 39.5 hours a week. Now I'm a white collar FTE and I work 35 hours a week.)
So, next time you call someone who's flipping burgers "lazy," think about how lazy a person must be to work 100 hours a week. Is that what laziness looks like to you? How many hours a week do you have to work too not be considered not lazy?
Because, the thing is, you know they aren't lacy. They're working their fingers to the bone, and have much shittier and shorter lives than middle class people. Calling them lazy (or stupid or unlucky or whatever) is how you rationalize the fact that you're unwilling to accept any inconvenience it might cause you to help them.
In this scenario -- aka, the real world, the world we are in right now -- they are working harder than the rest of us are, for less money.
wtf are you talking about? Do you think we don't need plumbers? Nurses? Get a job loser
See here the man not only a slave to the system, but placing the shackles on his own arms and legs! Capitalism is wonderful!
Wouldn't have any time to do anything with them while you're working multiple jobs just to maintain your "quality" of life. What are you doing on Lemmy anyway? get back to work!
This you?
Monetarily isn't the only way one can be enslaved.
Kinda a chicken and egg thing ain't it? System sucks, I was born into a shit system, and learned from it, so now I'm a slave to it. What if I told you people are, on average, doing absolutely everything they can to not be paycheck to paycheck? Even the "welfare queens" I'm sure you'll bring up next are a product of the fucked up system were born into. And also what if I told you people can be working on bettering their own positions while also pointing out that the system they are forced to take part in is absolutely rigged? Get the fuck outta here.
What change do you propose? Being born ultra rich?
If you work hard and become a professional you can make 100-120k in your 30s. Maybe as much as 150 if you get lucky. Those jobs exist in places where rent is 50% take home and ownership is completely off the table.
Do you suggest working a Denny's in a rural area? Fuck that and fuck you.
All the people who are ultra rich
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