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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I live in a major US state in a moderate to high cost of living city. Most of the populous states have minimum wages between $12-18. Rent at a trailer park is easily doable at 1.5hrs/day at $15/hr.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It really isn't. Maybe 40 years ago. There's a reason we're in a cost of living crisis and the homelessness rate has soared in the last five years faster than any other point in us history. Its not a lack of jobs.

Hell working homeless is at its highest point in human history.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm basing everything on 2025 numbers. You seem to be just making claims based on vibes.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

No, you're making things up entirely based on imaginary ideas. A studio for just a week's worth of work a minimum wage? Even in the early 2000s that was practically a myth. No american I have ever known has paid less than half their wages for rent; including myself when I still lived in that shit hole.

Maybe the rich lived differently, and from your naive idealism it's clear you did, but christ I would have loved to not pay nearly all my income for housing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I don't know what to tell you. I searched rental listings and based my calculations off that. Reality disagreeing with your preconceptions is not my problem.

My first apartment was $525, I was making $10/hr as a gas station clerk, which you will find comes out to 52.5 hours of work. Full time work is 160-175hrs/month, so that was just under a third of my wages, and my math shows 1/3 < 1/2.

Prices for apartments have certainly outpaced wages, I won't argue against that, and obviously the calculations are a bit different if you're trying to live downtown in a major city. But those examples are way nicer than a peasant's hovel anyway. Trailer rent is still pretty cheap.