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Anon lives on a budget (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 54 points 11 months ago (8 children)

And this is why some people are voluntarily living in their cars, you can't save for shit when rent eats 2/3 of your paycheck

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago* (5 children)

    Which seems like a decent plan, untill your house breaks down or runs out fuel in the middle of nowhere, or your apartment gets impounded while you're at work or using the gym shower, or even just while you're sleeping in it..., and then auctioned off after the mail notice they sent to your last physical address was not responded to in time.

    Its basically not legal, anywhere in the US, right now, to live in a car and park it almost anywhere.

    You have to be hypervigilant, to survive this way, and ... that just is PTSD, it'll make you worse at your job, more likely to lose it.

    So we're basically just making a permanent, sub-proletariat class, thats just gonna get funneled into jail or some kind of concentration camp, probably just turned into some kind of functional, if not formal slave class, whether by debt or criminal conviction or both... within, I dunno, 5 years or less?

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    I wish we lived in a society where the common belief was that a rising tide lifts all ships, instead of this pull yourself up by your bootstraps rugged individualism nonsense.

    Funny thing about that one, the original meaning of that bootstrap idiom was to mean basically impossible, and yet it’s used about as unironically as trickle down economics was

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