This totally real person is also paying $40 for their cell bill and $30 for a personal cleaner per month lol. This totally real person is also only spending $250 dining out per month but also $13 per day on groceries for one person for some reason. Also also this person (who is totally real I swear) is paying $20 per month for internet but for some reason that isn’t grouped in with utilities
The cell bill is believable. I pay about $30 a month on mine on prepaid.
The $130 for transport has to come from a NYer though. That's the cost of a monthly card, there's no way you're just spending that much if you have a car.
Also $615 from donations, wtf.
who amongst us doesn't donate 75% of our rent to... uh... idk whotf are these people donating to? their church? the biden campaign? I know it's not homeless shelters or anything like that
He actually is donating to homeless shelters except it’s in a city that he moved to and is literally a gentrifier in lol
You know what? It doesn't solve the issue by any means at all, but that's a good thing in my book
I don't think we should be hanging gentrification on an individual renter, either. It's a systemic problem. To the extent individuals are to blame, that blame falls on people consciously fucking over poor neighborhoods and people who prevent changes to that system.
true yeah, I think of it as more of a side-effect of the capitalist mode of production that we currently are living with, and a sign that a different attitude toward housing and neighborhood/community development is absolutely necessary going forward. Along the same lines as what you said, but different framing
I remember some line in the Foucault-Chomsky debate along the lines of "we're tunneling into the same mountain, but maybe from different parts of the mountain." Whatever else anyone thinks of those two, that's a good way we should approach conversations with other leftists.
That transport cost is exactly why I’m wondering exactly how this person is paying $800 a month on rent lol. That has to be in NYC and you aren’t living anywhere that you aren’t splitting bills if you pay less than $1300 for a crappy apt in an undesirable location