• Yeather@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    No, not everyone in San Fransisco can be an electrician or plumber, but the many that are complaining about high prices of rent can learn a trade and move to lower cost areas where the pay is good. The people working Starbucks espresso machines are in the same boat. If you’re working 40+ hours a week and can’t find a place with roomates to live you need to move somewhere more affordable.

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      1 year ago

      If you’re working 40+ hours a week and can’t find a place with roomates to live you need to move somewhere more affordable.

      Fine. Who is going to make the coffee? Or flip the burgers? Or wash the dishes? Or deliver pizza?

      Should San Francisco not have any low-cost food options?

      Because you sure don’t sound like you think service industry workers deserve more pay.

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        If you cannot afford to live in San Fransisco you shouldn’t live in San Fransisco. If all of these people left, the market would fall to the point where the city becomes affordable again. The rich hate being inconvenienced more than anything, and if all these workers moved to cheaper areas they would feel it.

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          You think only rich people drink coffee and expect to eat off of clean dishes? Really?

          Also, what cheaper areas would those be? And why should they have to endure even longer commutes than they already endure?

          All of this sounds like you want to punish poor people because they’re poor.

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            1 year ago

            If you’re poor you shouldn’t be getting Starbucks regularly, make your own coffee for cheaper. Cheaper areas are all around, smaller cities across America where your wages stretch farther. Not everyone needs to live in the bay area.

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              So the Starbucks employee should like in eternal squalor and be grateful to barely make ends meet. But hey, those more fortunate needs their expensive coffee too, that money will trickle down any day now.