My Heart So Broke That I Could Beg For Affection

I feel like a good shorthand for a lot of economics arguments is "if you want people to work minimum wage jobs in your city, you need to allow minimum wage apartments for them to live in."

"These jobs are just for teenagers on the weekends." Okay, so you'll use minimum wage services only on the weekends and after school. No McDonald's or Starbucks on your lunch break.

"They can get a roommate." For a one bedroom? A roommate for a one bedroom? Or a studio? Do you have a roommate to get a middle-wage apartment for your middle-wage job? No? Why should they?

"They can live farther from city center and just commute." Are there ways for them to commute that don't equate to that rent? Living in an outer borough might work in NYC, where public transport is a flat rate, but a city in Texas requires a car. Does the money saved in rent equal the money spent on the car loan, the insurance, the gas? Remember, if you want people to take the bus or a bike, the bus needs to be reliable and the bike lanes survivable.

If you want minimum wage workers to be around for you to rely on, then those minimum wage workers need a place to stay.

You either raise the minimum wage, or you drop the rent. There's only so long you can keep rents high and wages low before your workforce leaves for cheaper pastures.

"Nobody wants to work anymore" doesn't hold water if the reason nobody applies is because the commute is impossible at the wage you provide.

absolutely obsessed with the divine femininity that only men in glam metal bands are capable of possessing

Max Oppenheimer (1885 –1954) Salome, oil on canvas 1919

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Hermaphrodite in Dreams Johfra Bosschart

me when my internalised homophobia is so bad that i can’t hold hand w my friends in public 🤣🤣

Happy Jubilee though!

Off The Leash 🐱🐶🎤

sorry but this band has to be a front for a gay sex thing. like I know they love making music together but it had to have started as a gay sex thing

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