If you’re working 60 hours to afford where your are, then it’s cheaper to move. I know, I’ve been there and done that. And that means they choose poorly in the first place. Spent way to much money to move into the place. And lives way above their means.
You are overgeneralizing your singular experience. First off, good for you! Changing it up is hard and that fact that you were able to do that is a good thing! However, just because you can do it doesn’t mean that anyone can do it. Financial matters are complicated and ingrained generational poverty is not something that the majority of its victims can shake off. Educational, financial, and systemic barriers exist to keep people in these shitty situations.
If someone chose to live in a poor area to live within their means, but then the neighborhood gentrifies and the rent triples in a brief period of time, such that the person now has to work constantly to avoid getting evicted or starving, all the while their manager is perfectly willing to fire them if they miss a single day, then life becomes about daily survival and everything else goes out the window. While some people can move, it is not reasonable to expect that the majority of the population would be able to move.
The choice available to them is suffer in a situation where their needs are met, albeit barely, or risk homelessness in a society that views financial failure as a personal failure instead of recognizing it as a feature of capitalism.
titanicx@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
If you’re working 60 hours to afford where your are, then it’s cheaper to move. I know, I’ve been there and done that. And that means they choose poorly in the first place. Spent way to much money to move into the place. And lives way above their means.
Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You are overgeneralizing your singular experience. First off, good for you! Changing it up is hard and that fact that you were able to do that is a good thing! However, just because you can do it doesn’t mean that anyone can do it. Financial matters are complicated and ingrained generational poverty is not something that the majority of its victims can shake off. Educational, financial, and systemic barriers exist to keep people in these shitty situations.
If someone chose to live in a poor area to live within their means, but then the neighborhood gentrifies and the rent triples in a brief period of time, such that the person now has to work constantly to avoid getting evicted or starving, all the while their manager is perfectly willing to fire them if they miss a single day, then life becomes about daily survival and everything else goes out the window. While some people can move, it is not reasonable to expect that the majority of the population would be able to move.
titanicx@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Then that is still a choice they have made to stay in a place that requires slave hours to maintain.
Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The choice available to them is suffer in a situation where their needs are met, albeit barely, or risk homelessness in a society that views financial failure as a personal failure instead of recognizing it as a feature of capitalism.
Not everyone can take that risk.