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Why should someone on minimum wage be able to afford a medium-quality 2-bedroom rental? Do we have no room in our society for people who don't need much more than a low-quality one bedroom? or even roommates? I've lived with roommates for years and it's great.

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Aella

@Aella_Girl

Jul 14, 2021

why isn't the standard "people on minimum wage can't afford a room in a group house"? is it cause everyone on minimum wage *can* afford a room in a group house, so the headlines aren't very exciting?

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There are real tradeoffs in addressing the working poor, but most people still want privacy, monogamy and children, and no, it's really not good enough to be sheltered in a room during the hours you're not pretending to find some semblance of meaning from your minimum wage job

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@webdevMason

this, like most things, is still super culturally relative; what living standards are acceptable aren't an absolute fact of humanity but rather are learned around what we think we can get and comparison to others.

10:40 PM · Jul 14, 2021

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People have been living in shacks with multiple generations of family a lot longer than they've been renting rooms in polyamorous group houses. You can change the standard to "you should be satisfied with a room in a group house," but don't be surprised when people... aren't

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Or rather, don't be surprised that people with access to perfectly fine rooms keep trying to eke out enough for their own place and their own family, and that the people who *actually* live in group houses are on average not neurotypical and not culturally mainstream

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