And her son wasn't the only one struggling. Jess received a call from her eldest daughter, who was complaining that her husband was going to have to quit his job to take care of their kids because of how expensive childcare was. They were spending more on daycare than what he was earning.
Burger King made a statement that they're not using surge pricing, rather they're reducing the cost during slow hours. Uh... That's surge pricing since they already raised the "regular" cost quite a lot.
My town has been pushing for affordable housing. After the complexes were approved the builders listed the units “for young professionals” starting in the low $500s. Totally out of range for most young adults. Anything the federal government does has some root in corporate profiteering.
And who owns these units? I see assistance for buying a home, great, but what's to stop corporations from picking these up? Even if they are apartments, what's to stop the owners from keeping costs artificially high for profit?
I’m not against this, every time I go to Europe and see people living above the storefronts I think it’s a great idea. Now… I will say I’d rather have the thousands of small business stores rather than these massive box stores but the cat is out of the bag already in the us
I feel like this could get twisted to the dark side by let's say Walmart. Live above Walmart, work at Walmart, buy everything you need from Walmart then get cremated there. Probably while on food stamps because they still don't pay enough.
Yeah, people like Elon Musk are trying to revive the 19th century concept of company towns. Move your employees to the middle of nowhere in Texas, suddenly they're renting your houses, buying stuff from your store and basically never leaving. Quitting/getting fired suddenly involves uprooting your whole family to a completely different state on short notice.
I used to live above a grocery store with a food court and a handful of restaurants. It was fantastic aside from the occasional middle-of-the-night (or day) fire alarm.
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