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Renae. Denver. Anarcho-Communist. Aspiring Sociologist. They/them. Animal Liberation is Human Liberation. The state is violence. Fashion is my coping mechanism.

[anarcheaux]

I’m crying rn and quite suicidal so there’s my first personal update on here in a very lonng time lmao

[unsavant]

[sunthang]

paradise

[flowerinaflame]

[starlightandtears]

All rapists can die. All the creeps who sexually assault people can literally drop dead.

[gingerlynnism]

That won’t fix the problem.

[bitterblackbitch]

Girl what… that’ll literally solve the problem lmaoo

[kropotkhristian-deactivated2019]

[x-strongpinkkliquor-deactivated]

[brianabreeze-deactivated2019010]

What heaven is probably gonna look like😍

[6lacksoul]

[biteitwhenitssoft]

why does everyone make those relateable posts about depression meals and list stuff like, half a potato chip and forgetting eat but no one ever talks about the other half of people who overeat from depression? no one talks about gouging yourself with food the second you feel bad because somehow youre convinced food will make you feel better but it doesnt so you keep eating until it does? the weight gain? feeling sick from eating so much? eating an entire bag of chips and a whole carton of ice cream in one sitting without knowing it?? feeling even worse because youre making yourself so ill???

why does no one remember this symptom?

[706softly-deactivated20180911]

Because of fatphobia. Plus it doesn’t fit the “cute sad waif” side of depression that everyone keeps romanticizing.

[aliengrl12]

spend the rest of my life trying to make blue eyeshadow wearable

[anarcheaux]

um wow <3

[frogmp3]

is somebody going to say these kids are holding their classmates to impossible standards and bashing them for not having radical politics or whatever or are we going to stop denying the fact that liberal politics do nothing but harm people of color whether they’re coming from teenagers or not

[angelbabyspice]

thank. you.

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[kittoeldn]

[yungwh0re-deactivated20200923]

follow challenginglimits for x-rated content 

[lithicc]

Militant begging gets the goods.

[1010ll]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BgpijbCl6bP/?

[marlenedietbitch]

[meanplastic]

Anna Nicole Smith

[zaddylonglegs]

that’s a great squat

[deebott]

Righht

[crunchbuttsteak]

Minimum Wage should be indexed to 2% of a city’s median rent.

And here’s why:

Housing costs are the single biggest financial burden facing Americans today.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development define being cost-burdened as spending more than a third of your income on rent. By that definition, over half of the households in this country are cost-burdened. Source

If we want people to be able to afford to live in cities and not get priced out, we have to make a two pronged approach. One is to build houses towards all incomes and price ranges, not just luxury condos. And the other is a robust wage floor so people can actually afford to live.

Fight for 15 is doing an amazing job and I love them, but we have to realize that is quite a few places, $15/hr still isn’t enough to live on.

Which is where the 2% comes in. It allows a minimum wage that is flexible with regards to the costs of living.

And it wasn’t plucked out of thin air either:

Rent should be a third of a persons income, or to restate the equation: income should be three times a person’s rent.

And since a full time job is 8 hrs a day / 40 hrs a week / 160 hrs a month.

So when you do the math, the ideal hourly minimum wage as a percentage of rent works out to around 1.875%, which for ease of calculation is 2%.

[crunchbuttsteak]

Example minimum wages under a 2% rent rule:

San Francisco: $67.40/hr

New York City: $56/hr

Boston: $55.94/hr

Los Angeles: $27/hr

Houston: $21.38/hr

St. Louis: $18.22/hr

Billings, MT: $17.16/hr

[soprie]

https://globalnews.ca/news/3609431/new-record-2090-a-month-is-average-cost-of-one-bedroom-rental-in-vancouver/

Vancouver BC: $41.80/hr

Calgary AB: $30.00/hr

Regina SK: $17.72/hr

Winnipeg MB: $21.40/hr

Toronto ON: $35.52/hr

Montreal QC: $19.12/hr

St John NF: $19.16/hr

Halifax NS: $19.74/hr

Not quite as staggering as San Francisco, but Vancouver’s housing crisis is still glaring.

@allthecanadianpolitics

[everentropy]

I currently live in Boulder. The average apartment costs $1800.The minimum wage would have to be about $36/hr. In Denver it would be about $30.18/hour

[cucumber-kimchi]

god do i feel underpaid now (in nyc)

[ancientson]

Well yeah, I live in Denver, and you CANNOT find a studio apartment, even in the cheapest neighborhood in town for under $800-$900/month. I’ve tried. When you combine that with health insurance, gas/car insurance (which you are required to have), and food, it gets pretty pricey. I work 40 hours a week at $11/hr (which is well above the city’s minimum wage). After taxes I make roughly $1200-1300/month. I have student loans to pay off and transition-related expenses 2 times a month in addition to all the other necessary expenses (including mental health medication). So I’m still living with my parents because I can’t afford to live in Denver otherwise.

I’m an unmarried, childless, able-bodied adult. I’m making several dollars above minimum wage at a full-time job and I can’t afford to live in Denver. For a single parent with even one kid, $30.18/hr is a pretty conservative estimate for what it would take to live here and support a kid.

[anarcheaux]

I live in Denver too and not one single day goes by that I do not think about this. I rent out a room in someones house for $500 because living with my parents was no longer a good option for my mental health (I’m queer and cannot come out to my parents, on top of other emotional abuses & generally feeling suffocated and uncomfortable in my home bc of my mom’s ocd). I make $12 an hour, and once all my bills are paid for, i have about 200 extra at the end of the month that goes towards gas and maybe being able to enjoy myself every now and again. existing here every day is a draining process. If I could make $30 an hour I would be able to go back to school and not worry, live in a home that was comfortable, never worry if I can eat three meals that day, etc. 

So basically fuck capitalism, fuck landlords for raising prices, fuck money, and also, fuck working in general. 

[doyoulikevintage]

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