Full disclosure- family has a mobile home, anchored with porch built on, that is our camp. It is in a nice friendly trailer park, where no one is rich, but no extreme poverty prevalent. Some of our friends there are very poor, though. Some live there, but most have their places as camps. Backwoods PA. We are not poor, middle class, but I live paycheck to paycheck. So I have some experience with living in these conditions, just not permanently.
I read the article- and see both sides. The poor have to live somewhere- especially the sex offenders. Imagine being the dude caught pissing on a tree by a cop just cause you had to go, and bam- sex offender. Harmless or serious, those folk have gotta have a nightmare the rest of their lives trying to find housing. So yeah, itâs good that there is a cheap option at least, beats homelessness. And all landlords do raise rent.
That said, the tone of the article is fucking infuriating. They are making it a celebration of joy to raise rents on poor people- not, yeah, you can see it that way, but they intentionally used that kind of phrasing in real shock, joy that they can get away with it because theyâre poor. What are they gonna do? They only leave when they die?
Christ, what assholes. They even made it overtly into a class thing with the sell to the masses eat with the classes line. Fucking christ. Sorry, but I canât believe people this- not evil, but immoral exist. Who creates their mentality? Where does this joy at seeing people struggle to survive and happy to make a buck off it come from? How are people like that raised to arrive at that outlook in life in our country? Iâm speechless.
500$ for one of 3 bedrooms in a trailer?? Damn. I just signed a lease today on the first apartment Iâve ever had on my own, for a little less than that, at 500 Sqft. Cheaper and nicer than a trailer, Iâm working poor though with little disposable income and student loan debts.
This article absolutely concretes my opinion about existing on land- everything, owning a home, renting, itâs all linked to either paying someone rent to exist in a spot safely each month, or boils down to the same thing thru mortgage, even property taxes. Paying even 1$ in tax on land you âownâ is paying someone else for the right to exist, because if you donât pay it- itâs no longer yours, even if itâs paid off.
I refuse to stay in this system and pay people to exist when I can just barely make it to get this apartment and feed myself. Iâm building a motherfucking houseboat as soon as I can, and living where I please. I will pay no one to simply exist on a spot after that.
Welcome to modern enslavement- not just debt, but rent. Pay to exist, history of man. I just refuse to agree with it, even if my view of it is extreme. Modern society can go fuck itself.