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Agag posted:Can't wait for ten pages of "by my bootstraps" stories itt. remember when bootstraps was a punchline in this forum, and not a milieu
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ProperCoochie posted:A young woman was about to finish her first year of college. Like so many others her age, she considered herself to be a very liberal Democrat, and was very much in favor of the redistribution of wealth. same
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Feb 20, 2016 04:54
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QUEEN CAUCUS posted:The whole 'not having a roommate' is actually the weirdest thing about that whole article to me. A lot of the techies I know up in San Fran are making a comfy six figures and still usually have roommates to try and save up. a lot of the techies i know are dumb babbies only valued for their autism who dont know how good they actually have it and their complaining is 10000% more obnoxious than those trapped in a subhuman standard of living
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Feb 20, 2016 05:09
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hate your minimum wage job? have you considered making more money? 
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Feb 20, 2016 05:41
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it only took goons 3 pages to come up with the perfect bootstrapping plan for this girl. how many pages do you think it would take to help the other 4 billion people living in poverty make good decisions so they arent poor anymore? math goons help me out, lib arts here
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Feb 20, 2016 06:48
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Aralan posted:Is "don't move across the country to San Francisco to work a minimum wage job" really an outlandish plan, because I'm pretty sure she could've panhandled at her local interstate exit while she worked on her Twitter portfolio and done better you're acting like these minimum wage jobs would just disappear if she didnt take one
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Feb 20, 2016 06:56
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TheWhiteNightmare posted:she's going to be loving fine dude do you promise
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Feb 20, 2016 07:36
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what she needs is a good long hitch in vietnam to build character
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Feb 20, 2016 07:37
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why cant she just stay at home all day in mobile alabama masturbating retards like i do? whats all this twitter nonsense?
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Feb 20, 2016 07:47
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downright good fer nuttin city slicker talk is what that is 
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Feb 20, 2016 07:51
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personal responsibility 
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Feb 20, 2016 08:16
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you cant fix an economic system that is objectively broken because, as this thread shows, anytime you suggest theres a problem, millions of bellowing goons descend shrieking THIS IS THE WAY IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE
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Feb 20, 2016 17:55
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Plenty of job openings at my dick sucking factory for anyone who's interested. Pay isn't good, but it's honest work.
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Feb 20, 2016 22:26
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up until about 15 years ago you could afford to live in the middle of manhattan making low wages like these. failure of the government to adequately regulate rental units is one of the major driving forces behind nyc and san fran becoming unaffordable. i dont think its entitled to want to have a similar standard of living that our parents and forebears had.
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Feb 22, 2016 04:14
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Parallax Scroll posted:no thats entitled oh, ok
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Feb 22, 2016 04:20
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crabcakes66 posted:Isn't this pretty much the definition of entitlement? maybe in a strict legalistic sense, but not in the pejorative sense that people are using it in this thread
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Klyith posted:lol just lol ??? it's true. I have lived in nyc my whole life and have seen the way it used to be. quote:nah it's not like rents were regulated a ton more in the past. It's more about inequality that pushes the market to such crazy heights. i think it's not a coincidence that nyc and SF, the homes of incredible wealth from wall st and the tech industry, are the cities that are distorted so badly. hundreds of thousands of rent-stabilized units have disappeared from nyc over the past 20 years due to outdated regulation, so yes. after rent hits a certain threshold per month, a unit can be de-regulated, and that threshold was never adjusted for inflation and hasnt been updated in decades. quote:there's also pressure from the weird international poo poo going on right now, where foreign wealth is looking for safety and the hot US real estate is where they want to park it. in the 80s LA was the in city and that's where the japanese were buying all sorts of overpriced stuff. this too shall pass. yes, developers are being incentivized by the state government to build large towers with units that sell for millions, but which sit empty for most (or all) of the year because they are being bought by wealthy foreigners to launder cash. the market is actively working against the housing demand, which is a place for rent regulation to step in (but isnt happening due to corruption), quote:some people also have a kinda wrong image of the standard of living their parents had when they were young, even if they grew up middle class. lots of people in the 60s lived in little 1000 sq foot houses and thought that was fine for a whole family. 1000 sq feet is gigantic by new york standards, and a great deal of our housing stock was built in the 20s and 30s, so most people here actually have a pretty good idea about what living standards were like for our parents and grandparents.
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Feb 22, 2016 04:57
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I said come in! posted:I almost did what this girl did, but in Los Angeles. This almost happened a month ago. The difference is that I asked friends for advice and they all slapped me across the head and told me I was making a gigantic mistake. I decided to not make the move to Los Angeles. LA is super affordable and is one of the few major cities you could get by only working part-time in a coffee shop.
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la is so sprawling the good and bad areas blend together in a lot of parts, and there is cheap housing to be found even in the good areas
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