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[–] FlyingSquid 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can I pay rent? Also also no.

[–] grayman 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The trick to not having to pay rent is to buy a house.

[–] FlyingSquid 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Then you pay mortgage instead of a rent. Plus property tax.

[–] grayman 2 points 1 year ago

Rent is just paying someone else's mortgage and property taxes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How to save for a down payment when you can't even afford rent?

[–] grayman 1 points 1 year ago

Wells Fargo got you fam! PMI will only be like 10%!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Scott Morrison is that you?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I love my job and it pays me enough to not worry about it. The secret is living in any western country except the U.S.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

That's not true, there are other countries with this problem like UK and Canada.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lol Canada is like the most expensive place on the fuckin planet

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ridiculously expensive housing without the salaries to match. But at least I don't have to worry about going broke if ever someone in the family gets sick I guess.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If you get sick you just die, at least here in Victoria. There are no doctors and and people are dying of untreated cancers hahahah man life's good in Canada

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Right, because there isn't rampant capitalism and wide spread poverty pretty much everywhere else too.. 🙄🙄🙄

(am in UK and you're full of shit. I recommend checking your privilege, or at least taking your head out of your ass long enough to have a look around)

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

You're lying. British people are mentally incapable of admitting their faults when Americans are around.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Common UK L

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Social worker in Switzerland here. I feel pretty OK :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Poverty rates in former USSR countries have bwen steadily declining since its downfall. Its still widespread but how is capitalism at fault for it?

[–] ToastyMedic 1 points 1 year ago

OY you got a loicence to order a privlage check? I thought not there good sir!

In the name of the king, you are fined an indeterminate number of pounds, and required revisit your bogus claim.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] superduperenigma 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ah, the land of housing owned exclusively by foreign investors.

[–] FlyingSquid 5 points 1 year ago

That's true in the U.S. as well in many cities. Chinese investors buy up huge numbers of apartments and houses.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm so lucky I can just live with my parents 🥲

[–] LemmyIsFantastic 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

🙄 the US has plenty of not the majority of high paying jobs. Working in high skill STEM pays absurdly good.

It's like skill jobs that get fucked.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The absolute number doesn't matter much if the expenses of living in the STEM-riddled areas are just as high, if not higher.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Remote work fixes that for many people

Source: me, hi, I work remotely to LA and get paid absurd wages

[–] LemmyIsFantastic 1 points 1 year ago

And Europe isn't expensive to live? Canada? Australia? All of them have very high CoL in population centers. Especially tech hubs. The only place that's significantly out of whack is CA and to be honest, much of the time it's still worth it. Go remote and get the best of both worlds is quite common and easy.

[–] Coreidan -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is this sarcasm or are you just clueless?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

He's right though, live in western Europe and I got both the time and money to enjoy life.

Even the poorest in my country have a "right to vacation", special programs allow them to travel for barely any money.

[–] jaybone 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is “job person” a term now?

[–] Aux 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Just find a job which you love and which pays a lot, problem solved!

[–] tdawg 2 points 1 year ago

Unironcally. I think is what to do but backwards. You should try out the paths that lead toward the best paid jobs until you find the one you like the most. People get top caught up on finding their "dream job." Your team, the company, and the culture will have a bigger impact on your mental health than the tasks anyway

[–] ondra5 1 points 1 year ago

I can confirm that this works. It's what I did and I'm a lot happier than when I worked a job with an average salary.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Do I even get paid for doing it? Also no.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Beautiful servitude, how I love thee