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  • Gabadabs@kbin.socialtoMemes@lemmy.mlThe rent is too damn high
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    10 months ago

    Genuinely… you seem very out of touch. Your entire premise is incredibly ableist. You presume that anybody can do the things you’re listing, but many of us are living with disabilities, and not everyone has had the opportunities you have had to have enough money to pay for a house, or to buy a car. A $2.5k car is ultimately, MUCH More expensive than buying a more expensive car, because you are getting one that’s barely functional for that price. Once all my bills are out of the way, I take home $100 for all unnecessary expenses anyways, so it would take me years to save up for one of those pieces of junk.
    You take for granted that you have the confidence and motivation to do things like, say, even apply to one of these homebuyers programs - but other people have to put in more effort just to get out of bed in the morning.
    Check your goddamn privilege.







  • Honestly, I’m tired of corporate social media, and it’s integration with ActivityPub is the last thing I want for the platform. I don’t want “big” social media accounts ran by social media management teams, posting advertisements and “content”. I don’t want to see how many likes or boosts a post got, or to see celebrities show up in my TL. All that corporate social media like Threads will do by federating, is shove that kind of “content” onto people’s TL’s unless they defederate from them, as well as all the data collection that comes along with corporate social media.
    And, unfortunately, for those that USE Threads, they’re at best getting a worse experience of the fediverse than they could be.