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minus-squarecomfortable_doug [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up17·1 year agoSo like $69k a year, which isn’t bad, per se, but in many cities that’s still not enough to afford a three-bedroom apartment.
minus-squareBurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up35·edit-21 year ago not after we make some changes to the cost of housing
minus-squareSovereignState@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20arrow-down1·edit-21 year ago69/hr actually comes to ~140k a year edit: I’m dumb it’s 20 hrs a week lol
minus-squareZoomeristLeninist [comrade/them, she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·1 year agothats why we gotta go all Mao on the landlords
minus-squareknfrmity@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up13·1 year agoThat’s a fair point, but if we’re imagining a world with a twenty hour work week we can also imagine a world where life’s basics aren’t made unaffordable by capitalist greed.
minus-squarebloubz@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up10·1 year agoWhy do you need there bedrooms for yourself?
minus-squarecomfortable_doug [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up21·1 year agoBecause children shouldn’t be forced to work so that we can afford their bedrooms
minus-squareSpaceDogs@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up10·1 year agoI think they assumed it was one person living in the apartment.
So like $69k a year, which isn’t bad, per se, but in many cities that’s still not enough to afford a three-bedroom apartment.
69/hr actually comes to ~140k a year
edit: I’m dumb it’s 20 hrs a week lol
thats why we gotta go all Mao on the landlords
That’s a fair point, but if we’re imagining a world with a twenty hour work week we can also imagine a world where life’s basics aren’t made unaffordable by capitalist greed.
Why do you need there bedrooms for yourself?
Because children shouldn’t be forced to work so that we can afford their bedrooms
I think they assumed it was one person living in the apartment.