It takes now 53 weeks salary to earn same as 30 weeks in 1985

Re:It takes now 53 weeks salary to earn same as 30 weeks in ... by maerF0x0 on Thursday February 20, 2020 @03:56PM (#22378532)

I used to say something to this effect about homelessness. That part of why we have a housing shortage and other countries do not is because we have made certain types of housing illegal and thus made the "bottom end" housing too expensive for some.

Things like shanty towns etc.

Now, I'm not advocating for a society that houses people in shanty towns as an end goal. But I am advocating that shantytown might be an upgrade for some and we need to help people upgrade.

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Re:It takes now 53 weeks salary to earn same as 30 weeks in ... by bronipstid on Thursday February 20, 2020 @04:44PM (#22378938)

Large portions of the US populations arguably already live in shantytowns; run down inner cities inhabited by great migration blacks, sprawling exurbs in the south and south west inhabited by recent hispanic immigrants, many illegal, and trailer parks in the rust belt where white factory workers layed off by globalization are dying from opioids.

Its only in a few well insulated big cities that the true effects of globalization are kept far enough away to not be immediately obvious.

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Re:It takes now 53 weeks salary to earn same as 30 weeks in ... by maerF0x0 on Thursday February 20, 2020 @04:46PM (#22378959)

I agree that many live in sub-average and sub-human living standards.

What I'm trying to point out is that some home might be an upgrade from _no home_

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