My library-card costs 8€ a year and I can work there all day long in a nice quite environment. Internet is free, so are beverages. It also has a streaming-service and I can rent consoles and such there as well. I dont understand why someone would pay 600€ a month just for a desk to work at
The only thing that might be prohibitive is meetings or calls. But lots of libraries have little meeting rooms for you to be a bit louder in.
Last time i used library internet was a couple years ago, €4,50 for 15 minutes and on their outdated computers that do everything is slow as possible.
It took 14 minutes to print a single sided page from a government website.
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Right? This guy is really not smart if he’s paying $600 a month for a desk. He could go to a Starbucks everyday and spend $10 in food each day, and it would still be half the price to sit at a table and use wifi.
Hell, I’m pretty sure he could buy a desk and have it delivered to him for less than $600.
Sounds like homelesness but taxed and with extra steps.
If I have to live like this somebody is gonna die that’s a fucking promise. I refuse.
If I have to live like this *somebody is gonna die
Is it you?
Yes
Itll be somebody like me. I snore like a small rhino. No one would put up with me in this situation.
Also, this is not living.
You’ll own nothing, and be happy!.. sounds like the WEF has control over 4Chan now
The pod space things are criminally overpriced and sometimes dangerous. There was this video of someone showing “futuristic” pods made of cheap plastic and electronic-only doors.
If a fire breaks out in these spaces, people will die. I don’t understand why a fire marshal would even allow these places that are filled with dozens of people and no emergency exits.
A trailer park or a tiny home sounds like a penthouse suite compared to these places. But they will build these and charge this much because people are that dumb. I get that LA housing costs are extreme, but surely there are many things you can try to do before this.
But they will build these and charge this much because people are that dumb.
It’s not so much that people are dumb, it’s just that there’s nothing else like it available without those issues.
That’s fucking depressing. Though the question I have is - from the looks of it, he works remotely, so why even bother living in such a high cost area? I’m pretty sure this kind of money can rent a much nicer place, possibly even in the same state.
As someone that lives in SoCal, you are correct. You can rent a room for cheaper than what he’s paying. It just won’t be in Hollywood. Still, I really don’t understand why most people would want to live there, as that area is pretty much trash.
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Shoot the desklords!
Has anyone said “You will own nothing and be happy”?
Capitalism likes “no private property”, too. Just their own variant.
The renter class is hugely profitable, and expandable. (And they’re all very expendable.)
Id ban multiple home ownership.
This is regarding personal property, though
I don’t care how you define these two terms differently, I won’t like it either way.
Unt zen you vill unterstand
I understand perfectly now. I dont think you understand what Im saying though.
The bed next to him says Zach ⬆️ and Mike ⬇️ not Steve? 🤔
Johnson decides to live like a pleeb in an area that’s costly. Johnson’s story sounds like there isn’t an alternative.
I work in the same industry and have net of 2700€ a month after taxes and rent.
Don’t get glued to geographic location that eats all your hard earned money.
This young man should be an inspiration to the rest of you, an ideal tenant and employee that gives every penny he earns back to the economy. The world would be better off with a few more Steven T Johnson’s and a few less Greta Thumburgs.
He owns his own business and is doing this by choice. They don’t go into numbers, but the fact that the article is titled “The Affluent Homeless” makes me think he’s not struggling. The guy is atypical, but the people saying he’s a socialist or he’s being crushed by capitalism are reading their own politics into this.
My guess is that he’s doing an extreme version of Lean FIRE. I know a few folks doing less extreme versions. They own little, don’t go out much, and save every dime to retire as early as possible.
At least one person I know who did it retired in his mid 30s, then came out of retirement when his investments crashed at the beginning of the 2020 lockdowns. His skills were out of date so he started making way less than he was making when he retired.
The extreme run to retire early is so odd to me. Not that I think you should work until you die, but like… go out and do things while you’re young, even if you have to retire at 68 or whatever. Use some of that money to live your life. What if you do nothing but work and then die in a car accident at 29?
So, take the above with a grain of salt because it is, after all, green text. The numbers may be bullshit. The entire thing may be bullshit. Who knows.
But that said. $2000 monthly is more than my mortgage, utilities, insurance, internet, cell phone, and fuel expenditures combined in the same span of time. That is insane. (With what I overpay towards the principal on my mortgage puts me above that, but I wouldn’t technically have to. I’d just like to actually own my house some time this century, or at least before I’m dead.)
Why anyone would deliberately choose to live that way is beyond me. There isn’t anything special about my situation; I live in the here and now, at precisely the same date and time as this dude, in the same country, in a major metropolitan area. I’m not an executive, CEO, or landlord. I work in the durable goods industry, for fuck’s sake.
This is a living hell
Remember, socialism is evil because in socialism you won’t own anything.
Meanwhile, capitalism creates this…
