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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Oh and those pensions you might have heard of? That's just an old wives' tale, no such thing for you.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

Bros from the 1900s be saying "social security" lmao

[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago

Well, they're not wrong. If I had known I'd be in the same place after 10 years, I would've made myself more comfortable.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

The problem with being a long time renter, is that there is no guarantee that the real estate will always be available to you.

What if your landlord sells your house/appartment and the new owner wants to move in? What if the rent hikes eventually make it unaffordable for you.

Unless you own the property, you cannot plan with certainty for the long term.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

Well, then precarity is also bad for fertility. No one wants to have sex or have kids when they're permanently a month away from homelessness. And that means after the alphas, we might see a severe labor shortage for our landlords and industrialist masters.

Curiously, this was a permanent problem under feudalism.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I know a way to make it feel comfortable, but it's so much harder nowadays to get away with murder and drugging people to death.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Just gotta trick me into getting married then drive me to suicide.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

Yeah, it's not just Zoomers. It's so many more than just Zoomers.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Maybe in the past it's possible to live forever by renting, but that's not the case anymore.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Unfortunately this affects many more than just zoomer, fucking depressing either way..

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

can’t go wrong making it look like some generic AirBnB

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

interesting article... wow

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

I guess it's just realistic and "make the best out of it" at this point

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

By knocking down a few walls.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Do/did people actually wait for 25 years (to buy a house) before making their home interesting?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

It's more that if you own your house, then you can replace that sucky fixture with one you like, whereas if you rent, you're stuck with the sucky fixture, and when fixtures break, they're replaced with sucky fixtures.