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
Where the f do you live that you make $100,000 at 25 and rent is $825?
And their second biggest expense is charity?
This person is 100% real.
I'm pretty sure this supposed person is meant to be in NYC. The metro card is $127 a month. You could definitely spend $825 on rent provided you have at least one roommate.
Needless to say whether the person is fictional or not this is cringe as fuck.
Only time my rent was under 825 was when I had four other roommates and I've never lived in a city as expensive as nyc lmao
I managed to hit like $400 a few years ago when I shared a room w my girlfriend. That was dope, such a good time honestly, we were barely making money but it was still fine.
This is the budget of a 25 year old who lives at home and whose parents put their "rent" into an investment fund that they plan to give to them when they move out.
What do you mean? You know 25 year olds who don’t have a house cleaner?
yeah dude everyone knows a house cleaner is like what, 7 bucks a visit? cmon man
So how many 25 year olds are there out there actually making 100k? Like 1000?
The person this article is talking about actually opened his own test prep center for the predatory secondary education industrial complex
100% donating to Mayor Pete's 2024 election campaign and the Isreal for Palestinians Peace and Understanding Missile Defense Fund
https://archive.is/ssQ3n :agony-deep:
Klee lives in a shared house with four roommates and one dog.
Klee pays $81.50 for a monthly CharlieCard, which lets him use subway and bus lines around Boston. "I live pretty close to where I work, so I take the T," he says. He also spends between $40 to $50 on Lyft rides each month.
Klee is still on his family's phone plan. His part of the bill comes to $40 per month.
House cleaner: $30 (his share of the total cost)
Have a yearly income of 100k$
Still need 4 fucking roomates
Excuse me
Welcome to Cambridge, MA and working in either the Financial District or Seaport in Boston. It's fucking nonsense here.
Allston? It's gentrifying just like the rest of the area. Everything there is turning into high end asian fusion bistros
And if you do manage to find a good price somewhere like Mattapan or Roxbury, good luck landing a job if your address is on your resume.
“Philanthropy is a key part of Klee's financial picture. Each month, he donates a significant amount, around $615, to a variety of charities, including More Than Words and GiveDirectly. The bulk of his contributions go to One Family, a non-profit located in Waltham, Massachusetts, that works to end homelessness and break the cycle of poverty for local families.”
Wow look the gentrifier is paying remittances to the people he forced to become homeless
More Than Words is legitimately a great organization, considering the confines of capitalism. They provide jobs for kids coming out of DYS who need to build a resume in order to get out of the street life and find a better job. They pay the kids relatively liveable wages (it was $13/hr, a couple bucks over min wage) and treat them with dignity and respect, something a lot of these kids haven't really experienced before.
They also set up education plans to help the kids graduate high school and make plans for post-secondary education (trade or university) and provide scholarships to help offset costs.
But this dude still sounds like a fuck.
Lol Charlie card has already increased to 90 a month since this was posted in 2018.
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
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
wtf im getting rural internet and i pay 80 and its 250gb limit at 10 down and 1 up
100k salary, 4 roommates. sounds about right with 850 rent, lol.
