Keilik
@Keilik@lemmy.world
- Comment on Rich people don't understand us at all. 1 week ago:
In the suburbs in the middle of NJ. There were enough good Union jobs that even without a degree you could make enough money to live pretty comfortably, and the only notable thing about the area was that you could get to NYC or Philadelphia in about an hour and a half or so by train
- Comment on Rich people don't understand us at all. 1 week ago:
I have a special needs sister and my parents were so excited I was “normal” they made me help out and I grew up pretty quick.
I definitely was middle class, I started taking drum lessons early on and actually enrolled at the mason gross school of music at Rutgers when I was 11 and had been playing with jazz combos at those open mic nights since I was 10 or so. When I was 13 I did percussion with my teacher and others for a production of the H.M.S. Pinafore by Gilbert and Sullivan at a few different theaters in NJ. I auditioned at Juilliard when I was 16 but didn’t get a scholarship and realized I couldn’t make it in music the way I wanted to because I wasn’t good enough.
So I was taught how to budget very early on because there was a chance I was going to need to know how to do it myself, and all of the people I interacted with were in there 30’s and 40’s because I couldn’t relate to the kids in school.
So yea, I knew when shit started getting ridiculously expensive because suddenly everyone I knew was a struggling artist or had to stop and get a “real” job because they couldn’t pay their bills.
- Comment on Rich people don't understand us at all. 1 week ago:
In 2010 things were already way too expensive, I’m talking like 2000-2005. I’m not saying that stuff doesn’t exist, I’m saying a lot more people used to be able to afford to do things.
- Comment on Rich people don't understand us at all. 1 week ago:
Was not expecting this to be so unpopular but legitimately when I was growing up there were open mic nights and jazz clubs filled with musicians taking turns. People had weird exotic hobbies or fun cars they would drive on the weekend. There were artists and art galleries and little bookstores and microbreweries and hobby shops for anything you could imagine.
Now they have all closed, the jazz clubs bulldozed and paved over for parking lots, and no one does anything but work and be angry.
I remember a time growing up that people were paid enough to actually live and I refuse to let that die
- Comment on Rich people don't understand us at all. 1 week ago:
It really wasn’t though where I used to live, rent was cheap enough people legitimately wondered what was wrong with you if you had a roommate and weren’t in a minimum wage job.
- Comment on Rich people don't understand us at all. 1 week ago:
Cities are expensive, who would have guessed. I’m 33 and rent was $5-800 where I grew up, it’s now up to $2750-3750 for 1-2 bedroom apartments.
- Comment on Rich people don't understand us at all. 1 week ago:
I’m not that old and I can’t stress this enough, when I was a kid if you had a roommate it meant you were gay.
- Comment on What caused this? 1 week ago:
“At least the trains ran on time” kinda attitude
- Comment on this can all collapse in an economically devastating manner leaving thousands financially destroyed while the executives receive bonuses and payouts 4 weeks ago:
This is a really good article with a lot of thorough research into the economic buffoonery going on with AI. It’s long but it’s well written, funny, and entertaining enough to make it a pretty easy read.
- Comment on My prayers to Jesus worked 1 month ago:
- Comment on End of an era? 2 months ago:
I don’t know if it’s relevant to you but you can buy vita to micro SD adapters now and I did purely out of spite
- Comment on Dinner for one 3 months ago:
Where’s the slim jim tho
- Comment on Your shitposts have summoned this man to my house 1 year ago:
Is it the shitposts?
Or is it because you own Lämp
