Comments by "Orwellian Horseman of the Apocalypse" (@DennisMoore664) on "Minimum Wage Workers Can't Afford Housing Anywhere In U.S. Says Study" video.

Not ANYWHERE! People are lucky to find a studio efficiency in most places on a minimum wage job let alone a full single-bedroom. And if you are in a two bedroom you probably have at least one roommate. And that's even in the satellite cities to places like NYC and SFC to use two of the ones they singled out. From my own recent research I thought that it was pretty much impossible anymore to find a studio apartment for less than $500 a month anywhere on the grid unless you know someone. This just reinforces that belief. I see more and more people becoming vehicle nomads in the years to come. People are already renting closets or garage space to people so they have a physical address for legal purposes but who are living in their van under a bridge down by the river! Or traveling from state to state and living super cheap in state parks and national forests and praying their vehicles don't break down or get stolen. But those are the lucky few who are able to navigate the razor edge having enough money to keep moving but not enough to afford a little piece of land to settle on and grow roots. Interstate Nomads - coming soon to a rest stop near you. In fact, they're probably already there! That being said, Hawaii and DC are special places with special problems. We've all joked about how swampy and back-room-deal corrupt DC is because a certain degree of corruption seems to be built in to whatever ruling system is in place and shady real estate is just part and parcel of all that foolishness. But we idealize Hawaii as Paradise. Sadly, paradise by the square foot doesn't come cheap. And in a Capitalist culture economic losers fall hard to a bottom that is ugly to see and horrible to try to survive. When the place that is happening is paradise, the visuals look even worse than somewhere less paradisey - pardisish? Nice. I wasn't going to say it, but since they went there -- I'm going to start asking this question regularly - with the relentless life-is-fucked narrative from all sides is there any real surprise at the rising rate of suicides? But I am always a bit surprised when wealthy successful people off themselves. I knew he had demons, but Bourdain was a sad shock. Depression will fuck you up!
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