If You Can’t Afford the Rent, It’s My Problem, Too

Re:If You Can’t Afford the Rent, It’s My Problem, Too by ModernMech on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @12:18PM (#19502492)

I realized this when my landlord came home with a brand new Mercedes SL one day, and I was still taking the N to work despite having a 6 figure tech salary. I was basically subsidizing his car payment. I worked at a 6 person startup that received a few million in funding, and between our personal rents and the rent of our office, probably around 40% of that investor money went into the pockets of landlords. If our startup was somewhere cheaper, yeah we wouldn't have raised $X million, but we wouldn't have needed that much just to exist.

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Re:If You Can’t Afford the Rent, It’s My Problem, Too by nradov on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @03:06PM (#19504750)

Peter Thiel: Majority of capital poured into SV startups goes to 'urban slumlords'

https://www.sfgate.com/expensive-san-francisco/article/peter...

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Re:If You Can’t Afford the Rent, It’s My Problem, Too by rootusrootus on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @02:01PM (#19503889)

Sounds like the solution is to become a landlord ;-)

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Re:If You Can’t Afford the Rent, It’s My Problem, Too by asdff on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @05:03PM (#19506000)

Right after I get approved for my small loan of one million dollars to buy a 2br bungalow that will turn to dust the next earthquake.

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