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Draegur@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

HVAC and shelter.

ain’t gonna survive sleeping in your bike for a few years scraping by on the few places willing to hire you under the table.while all the shitstain hiring managers complain “nobody wants to work anymore” as they fucking shred your application over and over and over again.

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thehatfox@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Nobody should be forced to live in a car in the first place though. That’s a separate problem altogether from transit, which could be solved with reform to labour rights and housing provision.

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- Draegur@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  yes, it would be nice if this were not the shape of the world we lived in
  where vacant houses are piggybank tokens for foreign billionaires and their real estate holdings firms.
  where all the currency liquidity of our market has pooled at the top like a brain hemorrhage.
  where basic human rights and necessities for life are commoditized, gatekept, and sold at a premium.
  
  Metaphorically speaking, our civilization is flooded and we are traped underwater.
  It is indeed a problem that we are trapped underwater.
  People are drowning every day.
  
  Yes, no one should have to need SCUBA gear.
  Yes, it sucks that we’ve built our entire infrastructure around facilitating the use of SCUBA gear.
  Let us not mislead ourselves, however, into thinking that criticism of SCUBA gear would ever change the fact that we are trapped underwater,
  or that someone would be any less likely to drown down here if we took their SCUBA gear away.
  
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Throwdownyourgrandma@feddit.nl ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Just think of what you will save in car payments! /s

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Erismi14@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
What about the people who can’t even afford a car they are even worse off? Society should not waver on its social services, or sociietal norms to only meet the needs of unhoused people with cars. Many managers won’t hire housed people who don’t have a car, or even share a car with a spouse. Societally mandated car ownership just makes everyone more poor and hurts those who cannot afford a car.

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