“Almost a third on rent”? What utopia do they live in?
Right now a simple 2bd apartment averages $2450 where I live and this was always know as the cheap Canadian city! Bonkers!
Hey now, you could probably downgrade to a 1bd and save $200 a month
here in sweden most cities have some amount of municipal housing, where you can get a family-sized apartment for like $1200 equivalent, or a studio apartment for $300-400
it's almost like socialism works, and it works so fucking well that they have to legally restrict the municipal housing from being more than like 17% of the housing supply lest it nuke all private landlords from orbit
It's 3,100 where I live... And these are American dollars. I'm tired...
Is the average salary 3600? Then it would check out.
This must be an old comic. They're only spending a third of the money on rent.
Everyone needs to read "Hell's Angels" by Hunter Thompson.
There's a chapter where he lays out the economics of being a biker/hippie/artist circa 1970.
An Angel could work for six months as a Union stevedore and make enough to hit the road for two years. A part time waitress could afford an apartment for herself and her musician boyfriend.
But how many super yatchs were there in the seventies?
Checkmate workers
That's another thing I always mention.
When Ronald Reagan took office, 'middle class' was defined as one Union salary job supporting a family of four, and $1 million was considered a vast fortune.
By the end of Bush Sr's term, 'middle class' was two jobs to keep the family going, and $1 million was what a rich guy paid for a party.
Marx Financial Freedom Steps
- Buy a gun and ammo
- Revolt against your oppressors
- Don't profit because profit is bad
- enjoy the freedom of not needing an employment to live, and presumably free public transport letting you go anywhere at any time without needing to think about access to fuel or parking or how to feed and house yourself while you travel
Step 1: buy useless shit.
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I love the comic where he plays Monopoly and flips the fuck out
And all that avocado toast! I mean really!
