split-at-the-seems:

theunicornsuccubus:

meeko-mar:

peppylilspitfuck:

eizwein:

peppylilspitfuck:

The fact that a single person can’t afford a studio apartment on minimum wage in a lot of places should tell you it’s not a fucking liveable wage. 

IKR but then you just get told to find a roommate or something

The fact that wealthy people think it’s SO GREAT to tie your entire existence to a room mate that you may not even like/get a long with is amazing.  Because yes, I WOULD LOVE TO END UP ON THE STREET AFTER A FIGHT!  Every single person working full time at minimum wage should be able to afford at least a Studio apartment with money left over for other needs.  BUT APPARENTLY THAT’S TOO MUCH TO ASK. 

Hell I am married and we still had to have a room mate to afford a 2 Bed apartment and not saying it was completely because of this, but I feel like it DID help tear us apart because they were douchebags.

Me and my husband are both sick of having room mates(I mean I live with a buddy and two others rn, and don’t get me wrong, but STILL like I hate the dishes never being done, I hate being restricted to ONE ROOM like, I don’t have room in my own PRIVATE area to do serious art. The fridge is always full and a mess and just UGH

Bottom line, room mates are not the greatest fucking thing in the world and is NOT a solution to trying to become independent. And I hate how baby boomers shove that suggestion at us so easy like

No

Room mates almost destroyed my marriage(or helped it along). Room mates are a lottery on if you will get someone who can be trusted with BASIC CHORES. Or even if you’ll get a nice person or a complete DOUCHE. You have to share everything.

We should be able to afford to live on our own. That was the fucking IDEA when our parents had us…right? That eventually we would fly away and make our own nests?

It’s one of those things where the concept and reality of having a roommate in to your thirties/forties is seriously a new concept. The same people telling us to live with roommates, and “work harder” are also the ones that didn’t live with a roommate beyond college (if even then). 

My partner and I had horrific luck with roommates, so we live on our own, however, in order to do that we A) always, always, always live in the “rough” parts of town, to say the least B) Have had no less than 3 jobs between us since living without a roommate, and sometimes even more. Even doing this, we’ve had difficult times. C) We got the luck of the draw; they’re white, I’m white passing, we’re both young (early-mid twenties), my illnesses are invisible (mental, to be specific) and they’re completely able-bodied, we both have high school diplomas, we don’t have children, and we’re citizens. These privileges have given us chances, and opportunities that we probably would not have had else wise. And even then, we’ve had some seriously close calls. We got in serious debt. We went without. But still, we have been lucky.  I can not imagine how difficult, impossible, this must be for someone with children, or physical disabilities, or who isn’t white passing, etc. And to think the rich, and the republicans solution to this is to “work harder, budget, live with roommates” is so many levels beyond sickening to me. Especially since raising the wage, would hardly effect their (excessively) lavish life style. For them, the difference is only taking two vacations instead of three. But for us, the lower class, the difference is having a home. Having time with family/friends. Having fucking food. It makes me sick. 

ok but  “ Every single person working full time at minimum wage should be able to afford at least a Studio apartment with money left over for other needs.”
Not everyone CAN work full time. Even able bodied, mentally healthy people with no care commitments who aren’t studying or anything else simply because it’s the 21st frickin century and 2 and a half centuries or labour saving advancements mean there just isn’t that much productive work to do.  
Also, and I think more importantly humans are amazing complex creatures capable of love and art and astounding feats of engineering, we wren’t put on this earth to labour endlessly at some thankless task to boost the high score of some other human that already has far more than they could ever need.  We don’t owe them a goddamn thing and they literally owe us the earth.   We need to move past this idea of ‘earning a living’ not only because it’s just not feasible but because we are worthy of living just by being alive.  No more haggling over the price of our lives! Every single human deserves food and shelter and water at a very minimum, and realistically much more besides.  If you work, you should be compensated because you have given a great gift to your employer.  All the money in the world can’t buy your life back and it’s past time we started recognising our value and demanding our fair share of the rewards of our labour because if we don’t, they will keep driving the value down and down. No more ifs ands or buts.  Every human being must have the right to life and the means to sustain that life unconditionally.  That has to be our lowest possible bid and honestly me need to aim higher because they will haggle and we will die because of it.