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    1994: If you don’t straighten up and take your education seriously you’re gonna end up living in a van down by the river!

    2024: If you don’t straighten up and take your education seriously you’ll never be able to afford to live in a van down by the river!

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      2044: if you don’t straighten up and take your mining operation seriously, you’ll never be able to afford middle school.

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        2064: If you don’t fight in the water wars, you aren’t entitled to your daily rations of water.

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          2164: If you don’t endure the bottomless despair of unfathomable suffering, you will never be permitted to endure the bottomless despair of somewhat fathomable suffering.

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      2054: if you don’t straighten up and take your education seriously, you’ll never be able to afford to live

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        You’re behind on your oxygen bill again. If you don’t pay by next week your nose and mouth will be sown shut.

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    Kentucky is currently making “unlawful camping” punishable by death now at the hands of the land owners so double check where the bog is

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          Same thing, effectively. Funny enough that land was grabbed back in the 1600’s based on very flimsy rhetoric about how just claiming land for yourself was a god given right for all human beings and that it would solve all problems by free market principles (which were not yet formalized but would soon be, specifically based on said rhetoric).

          We were fucked by hobby philosophers hundreds of years ago. Don’t come tell me a philosophy degree is worthless.

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              Those are called sophists. Today we’d call them lawyers. Or Republicans.

              The Sophists were more concerned with being able to convince others that a particular opinion was to be believed, even when they knew it was actually false. Whereas Socrates was concerned only with the truth, even when it wasn’t something he wanted to be true.

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        …presuming you’ve asked them to leave and they’ve responded by threatening force or using force against you, and assuming that bill actually passes, yes.

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        Sounds cool in some utopian parallel universe, but as long as there are people willing to take advantage of others it’s not going to work in the real world. Imagine putting a lot of work in your garden and some random crazy person puts up a camping tent in it because they don’t believe in private property? Just get out in 5 minutes or I’ll call the cops.

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        I’m asking from a place of ignorance about your POV, but why is trespassing on “private property” bullshit?

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        Private property was always complete bullshit, it’s based on nothing but bad philosophy.

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      Not quite. Based on what that bill actually says, it’s not legal to shoot you for “unlawful camping” unless they ask you to leave and you respond by threatening violence against them or actually engaging in violence against them.

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    My nephew wants me to move to Tennessee. I’m a gay man that lives in New England. Just for laughs I looked at rents in his area. They are exactly the same as what I am paying now for a 1 bedroom. Not going to happen.

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    The flip side of the coin are people who tell me to “just move” away from my ass-backwards little shithole to a more progressive area. Like sure, I’d love to live in the city, let me just quit my job and reach into my suitcase full of gold bars…

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    City vs. Country

    Red vs. Blue

    Type A vs. Work to Live

    Homed vs. Homeless

    White collar vs. Blue collar

    Etc

    It’s a shame the divide and conquer routine works so well.

    Keep the peasants hating and rooting against one another so hard, they never look up at their common enemy. Credit where it’s due, insatiably greedy owner class, you have us dead to rights. You keep us so busy working and hating one another, we’ll never organize against your tiny population of manipulators betraying your own species and turning it into your personal livestock.

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        Type As are the people that kill themselves at work and show frustration at those that don’t. The annoying true believers of the workplace. They live for “that grind culture,” and in many to most cases, brag about the toll it’s taken on their personal lives if they still have one. Their sense of self is tied to their job.

        People who work to live are just that. They don’t derive their sense of self of life’s purpose from their job. They do what they have to for their pay check and leave.

        For this, Type As often mock them as lazy, while work to liver’s mock type A’s intensity and values.

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          Hah, here I was about to say there is some grey area in there, but the reality is that if I didn’t have to work to maintain my standard of living, I fucking wouldn’t

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            People have become so brainwashed by this ancient fucking industrial age myth of working that they think this shit is still valid hundreds of years later.

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          The annoying true believers of the workplace.

          The obedient house slaves. “Stop fighting for your rights, you’ll get us all killed! If you would just be more obedient they might let you live in the big house too!”

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          As a “work-to-live” person Type As are my natural enemy. If I’ve got a meeting before noon some Type A person is the culprit.

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            Ah see, as another work-to-liver I try to schedule my meetings before lunch so I can fuck around after lunch.

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          Ah, I see what you mean. Work to survive makes more sense to me as a term for that than work to live, but to each their own.

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            But it’s “work to live” not just survive. You spend the rest of the time on living. Whether that’s fishing, hunting, crocheting, watching football, playing games, or something else. Enough money to do what you want to.

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              Yeah, that’s what we all do, we just work all day then we come home and go hunting, fishing, kayaking, trekking through the desert, that’s how things work, and thank god they do right.

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              I interpret work to live as the reason I work is to live. That implies working is necessary to live. Which is simply not true in our modern day society. Some people don’t have to work.

              I could see how someone could easily misinterpret “work to live” as deriving their sense of self of life’s purpose from their job. That is the opposite of what is meant by it. It is so close semantically to the exact opposite philosophy of “living to work”.

              Working to survive, on the other hand, implies that your only there because you are forced to be to survive.

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    “When I first came here, this was all swamp. Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that’s what you’re going to get, Lad, the strongest castle in all of England!”

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    Honestly, groceries are pretty much the same price or higher in rural areas and you’ll be spending a lot of money driving around. Might get some cheap rent, though, if you’d rather rely completely on online shipping for anything other than the absolute basic resources than live a life of convenience and opportunity.

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    Checks available listings: Ah yes, bog witch it is

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    Brought to you by the ones who also made the statement “Hey, is that MY air you were breathing there?” :-|

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      Most servers are there temporarily as they look for a high paying salary job, either directly or by getting an education.

      And in most cases, you need to be in the city to apply for those jobs, to make the social connections that can help you find jobs, or to be where the good schools are.

      Once you leave the city to go get a medium-paying job in a low cost of living area it makes it that much harder to eventually find the career a person wants.

      Sure it’s a decent life, small town livin’, if that’s what you’re into, but people shouldn’t be forced into that lifestyle because it’s impossible to live in a city on an entry level wage.

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          Thanks for the well thought out reply, I’m gonna touch on a couple of your points:

          I can understand this, however, these days you can make very real and career “advancing” connections anywhere(even online 😱)

          That’s often not true. Most jobs in my industry specify the maximum distance you can live from the office, and there isn’t an official rule hiring managers would still usually hire the guy with an address in the same location instead of having to wait for them to relocate and all that. It might be unique to public jobs, but in my world hiring candidates from a different location requires you to foot the bill to relocate them, something that usually isn’t possible unless they’re some specialist.

          Also anecdotally, when I lived with my parents in a small town ~7 years ago I didn’t get any bites applying for jobs in cities.

          If you don’t have a career plan in mind, what are you doing in the city? If you know what you want to do, find a job in that field which can “fatten up” your CV.

          My only career plan was “intellectually simulating office work”, I got there eventually, but it involved scraping by in the city working odd jobs for about 3 years, plus an 8 month graduate certificate program.

          I lived with roommates, and got really good at cooking with dry beans and grains, and has a modest amount of support from my family, but I eventually found a job I love.

          And I got the interview through a connection I made at a in-person meetup group.

          I know how hard it was for me ~5 years ago and I had some help from my family.

          Rents are higher now, not sure I could do it with today’s prices, definitely not without a bit of help from the bank of mom and dad. People who don’t have that are screwed unless they get very lucky and find a good job right out of school.

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          Quick trip down the consequences of “servers should not expect to be able to live in a city”, as is your implied thesis.

          How many jobs exist in a city that are in this category? That is to say lower paying. Servers, sanitation people of assorted kind, transport, teachers, etc. How do you expect a city to function without them? People with low wages are also the people that may struggle to afford a commute.

          This idea is very “having your cake and eating it too”. A city needs to accommodate lower wage individuals or it will crumble. This neglects the expected basic living conditions for any given person.

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              Oh no. I mean waiters too. You want that nice restaurant? It’s gotta have staff. Gas stations and corner stores? Need staff. Every shop you go in needs staff and they aren’t going to be paid decent wages generally. Why are temp workers being excluded from being allowed in a city? Plenty of places need people on a temporary basis and plenty of people need such work.

              Your second point ignores the problem I’m pointing out. Rent must be limited in some way so that all the people the city runs on can live and work there. Given the gratuitous mass of people in a city, the incentive for investment and development will always be there. I’ll need a citation for the idea that an affordable city doesn’t get money from such things. That argument reeks of “greed justifying why it’s OK to have impractical and inhumane conditions”. There are more metrics than money.

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      Curious how you feel about custodians, and if one of the lowest paid essential jobs should ask the worker to drive two+ hours a day.