/biz/ - Business & Finance

[Anonymous No.16912505]

>Steven T. Johnson, 27, works in social media advertising and lives in Hollywood. He spends most of his days using things he does not own.

>He takes a ride-share service to get to the gym; he does not own a car. At the gym, he rents a locker. He uses the gym's laundry service because he does not own a washing machine. Johnson doesn't even have an apartment, actually. He rents a bed in a large room with other people who rent beds, for nights, weeks or months at a time, through a service called PodShare. All the residents share a kitchen and bathrooms. Johnson also rents a desk at WeWork, a coworking space. And he says the only clothes he owns are two versions of the same outfit.

>Johnson says he owns so little that he has even been able to get rid of his backpack. "I gave that up two months ago," he says. He says that for him, this lifestyle isn't cumbersome or confusing. "That's what's great," he says. "When you don't own things, you don't have to keep track of them. You just show up." He pays $1,400 a month to rent a bunk and an additional $600 a month to rent a desk to work at.

[Anonymous No.16912526]

>>16912505
mentally ill man

[Anonymous No.16912533]

>>16912505
>$2,000/month for two rooms that aren't even in the same building
>Could unironically afford a 4bd/2br farmhouse on several acres of land for the same monthly price
This is your brain on city life.

[Anonymous No.16912539]

This is the future. Bernie is coming to expropriate your belongings.

[Anonymous No.16912547]

>>16912505
this minimalism bullshit is being pushed constantly
oh yeah its so great being broke and not owning anything

[Anonymous No.16912548]

>>16912505
These people just want to relive their college dorm experience. Peter pan syndrome

[Anonymous No.16912552]

literal cuckold to the jews kek

>just rent everything goy

[Anonymous No.16912562]

>>16912533
you really think it works like that?
this guy is gonna move to his farm house and still be able to make $2000/mo?
fucking delusional

[Anonymous No.16912580]

>>16912562
All he does is online, why does it matter where he lives?

[Anonymous No.16912589]

>>16912505
Does he also rent a gf?

[Anonymous No.16912596]

>>16912533
Yeah but
>no job there
>no one except boomers around

[Anonymous No.16912605]

>>16912562
He obviously can work remotely. I mean, what do you think his WeWork "office" really entails?

[Anonymous No.16912616]

>>16912505
>an additional $600 a month to rent a desk to work at
do americans really?

[Anonymous No.16912666]

I see he has a bicycle, but does he really need that? And what's with those stairs with the built-in drawers? If he only has two outfits then why does he need drawers? The little fuck is holding out on us.

[Anonymous No.16912685]

>>16912589
fucking annihilated

[Anonymous No.16912695]

>>16912505
>$600 TO RENT A DESK
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

[Anonymous No.16912699]

>>16912505
>Steven T. Johnson
>sits infront of pod with Zach and Mike on it
So the lying jew made up the whole story right

>also the towel and jacket over the railing upstairs is against the no-provacy policy, everything has to be transparent and visible

[Anonymous No.16912707]

>>16912589
thats called a prostitute anon

[Anonymous No.16912737]

>$600 to rent a desk
Can someone explain this to me? I don't understand - if you work remotely on contracts or whatever, why can't you just sit at home or at a coffee shop or library on your laptop? Why the FUCK would you spend $600 renting a DESK? Am I missing something?

[Anonymous No.16912755]

>>16912505
>He pays $1,400 a month to rent a bunk and an additional $600 a month to rent a desk to work at.
LMAO
he pays $600 a month for a fucking desk
I pay only $260 a month for a fucking APARTMENT
amerihams are so cucked

[Anonymous No.16912757]

>>16912737
There's a reason WeWork's IPO fell through. As soon as you think about it for five seconds, you realize how retarded it is.

[Anonymous No.16912759]

>>16912562
Believe it or not, even in Bumfuckville, you can find jobs that pay at least $24k/yr (less than double of minimum wage).

[Anonymous No.16912760]

>>16912699
>>16912699
no he picked "mike" because it's a lot more efficient than "steven" or "steve". it adds precious minutes to his day each year and cuts down on the amount of confusing letters he has to deal with. all he has to do is show up that way, everyone should be called Mike

[Anonymous No.16912767]

>>16912533

And where the fuck are you gonna work? Opportunities are limited outside of major cities.

[Anonymous No.16912776]

>>16912759
24k a year doesnt buy shit bro.

[Anonymous No.16912780]

>>16912737
i work in security on an office building and there are whole floors of offices with all lawyers where each one rents a desk or cuck space but they're all together on cases and shit I guess
So besides law cucks, programmers would do this too i suppose, who else though?

[Anonymous No.16912790]

>>16912757
wait so there really is nothing more to it than that? Hipsters actually pay $600 a month for nothing other than a desk in a nice, ambient room with some cool plants and furniture? That is INSANE

[Anonymous No.16912796]

>>16912790
Theres a coffee machine.

[Anonymous No.16912803]

>>16912780
yeah and the difference is lawyers are also minted, this guy is some SEO peasant on fuck-all money, he's spending like half his income on a desk he doesn't even need while refusing to own shit like a bed, a car or a TV. Fucking crackhead

[Anonymous No.16912807]

>>16912767
Did you not read the part where his job is literally shilling on social media all day? He could very easily work from home.

I like your defeatist attitude, though. It keeps the ridiculous disparity in property values wide so that I can take advantage of it.

[Anonymous No.16912810]

>He pays $1,400 a month to rent a bunk and an additional $600 a month to rent a desk to work at.

THE
ABSOLUTE
STATE
OF
AMERICA

[Anonymous No.16912820]

>>16912759
Post office, make 40k a year starting, exists in every rural town in America.

[Anonymous No.16912827]

>>16912767
he works remotely, he could easily do it from a farm in Maine. Oh but then he couldn't go to Pride parades and get weed edibles!!!

[Anonymous No.16912830]

>>16912807
He still may actually have to meet people irl for social media advertising. I'm with you though if his job is 100% online, hes a moron.

[Anonymous No.16912852]

>He pays $1,400 a month to rent a bunk and an additional $600 a month to rent a desk to work at
that is beyond cucked

[Anonymous No.16912862]

>>16912807
Shill farms have to be commanded in person and with corporate hardware to be secure. Otherwise a disgruntled shill can blackmail motherfuckers with saved emails and motherboards full of shill shit. No you get your command in person and then use the shill farm PC to work, then go home (or to your crack junkie pod in this case)

[Anonymous No.16912865]

>>16912616
>>16912755
>>16912810
Poorfag eurotrash cant even fathom what it's like to live in an economy as strong as the US

[Anonymous No.16912867]

>>16912505
If i was Steve, i would get rid of my desk at wework and use the 600$ to buy dividend paying stocks, perhaps use a table in the library as his office desk.
If he truly can live like that and enjoy it, then he don't have to be a millionaire to become financial independt.

[Anonymous No.16912870]

>>16912827
recreational weed is legal is Maine

[Anonymous No.16912891]

>>16912867
Steve is probably a bug chasing faggot who absolutely has to be in the big city to get his proper homo action

[Anonymous No.16912900]

>>16912505
I pay less than that for a 2 bedroom inner city apartment, secure parking, storage and a pool and gym.

[Anonymous No.16912901]

>>16912865

Bunkbed living with no way to shower or wash clothes. Sounds cool man!

[Anonymous No.16912912]

>>16912760
fucking cackled

[Anonymous No.16912936]

>>16912870
not the point and you know it, he's choosing to remain perpetually poor to sustain a faggy instagram-friendly lifestyle

[Anonymous No.16912938]

>>16912562
City life'r detected

[Anonymous No.16912962]

I just want to know what his friends from high school think?

Like he looks like a smug fag in that pic, probably thinks he's hot shit for living in Hollywood, but everybody else is laughing at him for being a faggot.

[Anonymous No.16912986]

>>16912900
yes but can you tag yourself in HOLLYWOOD on Instagram? That's what really matters

[Anonymous No.16912995]

That face when you pay 140 euro in interest on mortgage per month, and nett 3k euro per month (healthcare n shit allready paid for because europe)

G wizz I sure want to try living in cuckfornia

[Anonymous No.16913013]

>>16912986

Hollywood is an absolute shithole too if you've ever been.

[Anonymous No.16913040]

>>16912505
Slavery sold as minimalist lifestyle. Communist utopia, but feeding the capitalist with all resources.

[Anonymous No.16913072]

>>16912562
I make $95k a year and i live in a farmhouse in bumfuck nowhere. Its not hard.

[Anonymous No.16913076]

>>16912986
Nah but I am in a place that's been the voted one of the worlds most livable cities with the best beaches in the world.

[DetectiveAnon !!xywCWEmZbu8 No.16913121]

>>16912505
>having a backpack is confusing
Jesus Christ, the zoomers will have to save us from this.

[Anonymous No.16913156]

>>16912962
Doubt it. Most people still think there's some sort of cachet to living in Los Angeles/Hollywood. They still think its this beautiful, coastal paradise that's depicted in media and don't realize just how much of a dump it is until they actually visit.

[Anonymous No.16913187]

Hold up. Why are we not selling $2800 bunk beds to Millennials?

[Anonymous No.16913196]

>>16912865
US economy is good if you are part of the 5% millionaires 0.1% billionaires.
It's borderline okayish if you are part of the decent income 14%, but if you are part of the 80% middle income and low income you are fucked, you might live a horrible life of struggle and any health emergency in your family can ruin you.
The US will look like Russia in 10 years of trump stays in charge and more and more wealth moves from the bottom to the top, a country of 95% poorfags with a 5% Uberich élite

[Anonymous No.16913214]

>>16913196
And that’s a good thing.

[Anonymous No.16913302]

>>16913196
I was just making fun of the retards using a Hollywood soi cuck whose lifestyle is so ridiculous that there's an article about him as a straw man for the US as a whole. Although it also doesnt seem as bad here as you make it sound either. I work for a nonprofit (low pay) in the DC suburbs (high cost of living area) and still live very comfortably and have plenty of spare cash to invest just by not being completely retarded with spending like most city fags.

[Anonymous No.16913327]

>>16912780
Yeah but the lawyers are using the space to meet clients and other attorneys right?

[Anonymous No.16913338]

>>16912865
>Posted from my rented desk

[Anonymous No.16913347]

>>16912547
>you own nothing GOYIM! and why its a good thing

[Anonymous No.16913378]

Well, Steven's place looks pretty cozy now. I didn't even know this was a thing til this morning.

Wtf. America is truly 3rd world now.

[Anonymous No.16913435]

>>16912589
Sure.
But remember lads, you're not paying for the sex, you're her to leave.

[Anonymous No.16913449]

>>16913378
imagine the smell

[Anonymous No.16913485]

>>16913449
Imagine just wanting to take a nap, but there's three dozen hipsters listening to some shitty guitar player and they all think they're culturally superior.

[Anonymous No.16913489]

>>16912505
>"'MURICA - the greatest country in the world!"
So, this is what the american dream looks like.

[DetectiveAnon !!xywCWEmZbu8 No.16913509]

>>16913449
>imagine the smell
Humidity, steamy wood, yeast, natural hair grease, feet and leather.

[Anonymous No.16913703]

>>16913378
>theyre all white
white people have sunk too low bros its over

[Anonymous No.16913737]

>>16913378
Americans are the dumbest nation on Earth. Whenever I watch some american video on youtube and read the comments I can physically feel my IQ dropping.
They made their bed.

[Anonymous No.16913755]

>>16913378

[Anonymous No.16913777]

>>16913378
HAHAHAHhaahahha... haahahHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAAHAHA

[Anonymous No.16913796]

>>16912505
$1,400 to rent a bunk? Why is it so much? How much does a full apartment cost?

[Anonymous No.16913798]

>>16912505
>PodShare

[Anonymous No.16913809]

>>16912533
fucking eh guy, even in toronto its not as bad as renting a FUCKING desk for 600 bucks yet. wew. usually 1.4-1.6k cad can rent a whole basement, 1 bdr condo for 1.6k-2k depending on location, but this guy is happy to be a cuck.

[Anonymous No.16913833]

>>16913798
>This is a transparent community

[Anonymous No.16913837]

>>16913798
>this is a transparent community - no you can't wank or sleep behind a curtain
>you can't get drunk or smoke weed
>you have to behave like Anne Frank for 12 hours a day/night
>No friends, no family
My blood is actually heating up with anger reading this shit, what the FUCK is wrong with Americans!?!?

[Anonymous No.16913839]

>>16912759
its not bumfuck nowhere then lol. atleast in canada you can see how depressing some rural areas can be, no immigrants and foreigners sure, may sound nice to alot of people, but no fucking money at all. sad life it can be up here. alot of guys at my work drive and hour & half to the city since theres very little to no work outside the city. lot of theft, druggies & booze out there, sad sad shit

[Anonymous No.16913850]

>>16912505
WHY ARE THOSE BEDS SO EXPENSIVE TO RENT I DON'T UNDERSTAND

[Anonymous No.16913857]

>>16912995
>healthcare n shit allready paid for because europe
You mean taken from your payslip

[Anonymous No.16913875]

>>16913857
I pay 300 a month for national insurance and the NHS have given me 20,000 worth of life-saving drugs over the last 3 years. I'll take that.

[Anonymous No.16913880]

https://news.wjct.org/post/affluent-homeless-sleeping-pod-hired-desk-and-handful-clothes

no mention of the rent in the article.

OP's lying and just added that in.

if you're not you should fucking source your claims, nigger.

[Anonymous No.16913894]

>>16913875
Do you need that much to survive? Or is it just to get high

[Anonymous No.16913895]

>>16913755
Lol

[Anonymous No.16913908]

>>16913880
here's a webm to give more attention to OP's unsourced claims

[Anonymous No.16913911]

>>16913894
It's infliximab, google it

[Anonymous No.16913932]

>>16912865
Our economy isn't strong. It's a huge bubble cause by manipulated interest rates you dumb nigger.

[Anonymous No.16913967]

>>16912865
>Fed literally jewing the economy ignoring the mounting house of cards that could buckle at any moment
>90IQ burger eating 'patriots' genuinely believe they have a strong economy
Read a book you fat idiot

[Anonymous No.16913999]

>>16913755

Lmfao

[Anonymous No.16914015]

>>16912505
>tfw I rent an entire one-room apartment + garden for half that, just because I didn't buy into the big city meme

[Anonymous No.16914030]

>>16913737
Okay Chav

[Anonymous No.16914041]

Yall just mad that you didn't invent a way to sell an even shittier version of a hostel to retarded millenials for triple the money. Cant hate the player if people like this let themselves get played.

[Anonymous No.16914054]

>>16914015
>Live in comfy 200k midwest city
>$312 mortgage
>12 minutes garage to desk
>80k a year @40 a week
Why do people throw their money away?

[Anonymous No.16914069]

>>16912505
Damn, it feels good to live in free europe

[Anonymous No.16914072]

>>16913072
Actually it is very hard given most people in America don't make close to that.

[Anonymous No.16914101]

>>16913875
>20,000 worth of life-saving drugs
What the fuck? What disease do you have?

[Anonymous No.16914137]

>>16914101
Crohn's, it's fucking gay. They stick cameras up my ass every 4 years and I have to take carcinogenic/cytotoxic meds every day to stop my immune system attacking itself. Weed unironically helps a lot with cramps, nausea and inflammation (and no I'm not some dude weed lmao'er)

[Anonymous No.16914238]

>>16913755
even the corners and edges are the same, holy shit lmao

[Anonymous No.16914310]

>>16912505
Truly a beautiful tax hamster

[Anonymous No.16914328]

why are retarded foreigners deluding themselves into thinking this is how the average American lives or wants to live? there's plenty of things wrong with our country, this retarded edge case isn't one though. when will you learn that the media and journalists will always shine a light on the absurd because their livelihood depends on jumping from one spectacle to the next?

[Anonymous No.16914356]

>>16913072
Based

[Anonymous No.16914561]

>>16913196
Having moved from the low end to the high end of it I completely agree. I wage slaved for years and had a shitty one bedroom studio apartment for 550 a month with the closest city being a 15min drive. I got inheritance from both grandparents in a short time and now I only work doing what I want to to kill time and to keep a source of income so I don’t burn it even though it’d take a decade to do so if I tried. The gap is horrendously huge when you’ve been on either side and if it keeps growing then there won’t be much of a “middle class” anymore.

[Anonymous No.16914594]

>>16913378
its like a homeless shelter. in face there are probably a few homeless shelters that are nicer than this.

[Anonymous No.16914609]

>>16913378
holy fuck people in cities just want to perpetually live out their childhood, I hate them all I hope they get killed by china supervirus

[Anonymous No.16914639]

>>16912505
This shit is just depressing.

[Anonymous No.16914648]

>>16912505
>not owning shit
>still paying $2k a month for the privilege

Kek

[Anonymous No.16914669]

>>16912865

yeah yeah ok boomer

[Anonymous No.16914676]

>>16914137
Haha fuck you jew. Of course, leeching off the system as always instead of dying as intended.

[Anonymous No.16914683]

>>16914639
nice comic. so many will for some reason think "well THAT one makes sense" on the end panel

[Anonymous No.16914708]

>>16913196
>implying it matters whos in the presidential puppet position.
you are fucking clueless arent you?

[Anonymous No.16914709]

>>16914676
wow, so edgy, here's the (you) you so desperately craved typing that

[Anonymous No.16914747]

>>16912562
$2,000 is basically minimum wage now everywhere in the US. Walmart employees make almost that starting

[Anonymous No.16914845]

>>16914709
Kvetch harder you burden

[Anonymous No.16915079]

>>16914137
I have colitis and this helped me. I'm now totally medication-free.
http://users.sa.chariot.net.au/~dna/IBD/index.htm

[Anonymous No.16915142]

>>16914676
>>16914845
kys fag

[Anonymous No.16915150]

>>16912616
Pay to work goy!

[Anonymous No.16915165]

>>16915079
jesus that looks intense, I'll have a read
>>16914845
I know you're a sad teenage troll but I'll explain how it works here in Britain, an actual first world country unlike America where you die if you can't afford an ambulance. I contribute hundreds a month in NI and thousands in taxes. I have paid well over 100k into the NHS over my lifetime, and taken probably a quarter of it back through surgery, check-ups and medication. I don't resent paying this because I understand if I get some insane rare bone cancer that costs £100,000 a day to treat, I'll get that treatment if it's at all possible. Likewise, my family and friends will get the same care regardless of their financial situation. Of course now we have issues with migration and bloated middle management that mean we need to reform it pretty urgently. But I am extremely proud of my country's healthcare and of the fact I help keep it afloat. On the whole I despise socialist ideas but I think a country where poor people literally die off like flies cannot be considered developed. Now, fuck off and die you insufferable cunt.

[Anonymous No.16915173]

>>16912760
>everyone should be called Mike
it would also be a very effective way to never forget people's names.
it would also help us make humans more equal.
no name discrimination anymore through alphabetical orders.

[Anonymous No.16915257]

>>16912865
You unironically cannot fathom how it is like to live in a chill, homogenous country.

Friend just came back from the States, was making x100 the money he can make here. He is not even considering going back. Enjoy your "strong economy', you can have it. (Still making bank from your stock market though, thanks for that, I guess)

t. content and grateful europoor

[Anonymous No.16915572]

>>16914015
post garden

[Anonymous No.16915585]

>>16914137
I know a dude who has Crohns
I'm surprised that there isn't some kind of cure yet
Seems like a bastard of a disease

[Anonymous No.16915589]

>>16914747
lol no

[Anonymous No.16915605]

>>16912901
his hostel probably has washrooms and laundry

[Anonymous No.16915621]

>>16915257
>(Still making bank from your stock market though, thanks for that, I guess)
this, pretty fun making 15%+ weekly gains from using Revolut without having to live in that shithole

[Anonymous No.16915630]

>>16915585
I imagine they will come up with one, probably just as it's too late for it to matter to me kek

[SatoshJn !!4um9zrdZqN7 No.16915804]

Disgusting
Check my dubz

[SatoshJn !!4um9zrdZqN7 No.16915812]

>>16913755
Checkd

Make Burgerica jew again

[SatoshJn !!4um9zrdZqN7 No.16915824]

>>16913999
Trips checked

[Anonymous No.16915892]

the american dream

[Anonymous No.16915948]

>>16913755
When do we get an ethnostate?

[Anonymous No.16915967]

>>16912865
you're just as much of a retard as any of these eurofaggots

[Anonymous No.16915984]

>$1,400 a month to rent a bunk and an additional $600 a month to rent a desk to work at.
LMAOOOOOO

[Anonymous No.16916064]

How do you not have a serious existential crisis waking up in the middle of the night and realizing you're renting out a fucking bunk bed.

[Anonymous No.16916092]

>>16916064
unironically dudeweed

[Anonymous No.16916137]

>>16916092
you're forgetting 'PodShare' doesn't allow drug use, bhahahah

[Anonymous No.16916144]

>>16915984
and he considers himself frugal.

[Anonymous No.16916182]

>>16913798
>No tenting or covering your pod
>No public nudity
Well how does this work?

[Anonymous No.16916200]

minimalism is just as bad as hyperconsumerism

[Anonymous No.16916203]

>>16912505
NOOOOOOOOOOO

[Anonymous No.16916284]

Now imagine trying to date living like that

[Anonymous No.16916288]

>>16913755
I wonder if the electricity is free.

[Anonymous No.16916447]

Where is he even masturbating?

[Anonymous No.16916490]

>>16912737
Because working from home can get really fucking depressing and lonely. Using a co-working space gets you out of the house, you get to be around people, usually the same people are there so you can develop relationships. Also, it's not just for normies. I'm a friendless loser autist and I thought I'd love working at home. I barely talk to anyone anyway, so it won't make a difference, right? Nope. Turns out staying at home for days on end and not saying a word to anyone, or even being around people at all, fucks me up.

Also, working in a place that you specifically associate with work can help with productivity.

[Anonymous No.16916526]

>>16915984
but 1400 unironically IS cheap in silicon valley

[Anonymous No.16916529]

>>16916490
>$600 a month
>What is a library

[Anonymous No.16916547]

he's only doing this to get girls

[Anonymous No.16916557]

>>16915165
>you die if you can't afford an ambulance
>I am extremely proud of my country's healthcare and of the fact I help keep it afloat

[Anonymous No.16916564]

>>16912539
Bernie hasn't done shit, but this will become the foundation on which his ideological inheritors will build their Star Trek-esque socialism. Capitalism is killing itself.

[Anonymous No.16916577]

>>16915165
Emergency care is provided upfront in the US. You can even avoid paying if you give fake identifying info. Many debts owed by "Emilio Estevez" or "Enrique Iglesias" to hospitals along our south border.

[Anonymous No.16916618]

>>16916490
Coffee shops are distracting and you have to buy something, and it's weird to stay there for hours on end.

I admit libraries are good, but they're completely lacking in the social aspect. Maybe acceptable if you're not a normie.

[Anonymous No.16916635]

>>16916529
>>16916618
meant to respond to you

[Anonymous No.16916651]

>150 replies to a bait copypasta
Good golly.

[Anonymous No.16916867]

>>16916651
you're pretty smart. wanna hang out?

[Anonymous No.16916913]

>>16913378
so ripe for charlesmansoning

[Anonymous No.16917010]

>>16912533
>>>16912505 (OP)
>>$2,000/month for two rooms that aren't even in the same building
>>Could unironically afford a 4bd/2br farmhouse on several acres of land for the same monthly price
>This is your brain on city life.

[Anonymous No.16917981]

>>16914069
that's a nice room anon is it yours or did you save it from Google Images.

[Anonymous No.16918077]

>>16912505
Bruh I can get a 2bedroom appartment 1 mile from hollywood for $2k/month.

[Anonymous No.16918125]

>>16912505

Being a slave with no possessions...it's just practical!

[Anonymous No.16918437]

>>16912505
>He pays $1,400 a month to rent a bunk
What the fuck

[Anonymous No.16918873]

>>16912505
Basically a funcional hobbo

[Anonymous No.16918960]

>>16913798
I would rather live in the damn ghetto then put up with that bullshit.

[Anonymous No.16918981]

>>16918960
Living in the ghetto is actually fine as long as you don't have a hot girl or children to worry about. And you don't have to go far to get drugs.

[Anonymous No.16919015]

>>16912547
>oh yeah its so great being broke and not owning anything
better than being a CONSOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMER

[Anonymous No.16919040]

>>16912986
>yes but can you tag yourself in HOLLYWOOD on Instagram? That's what really matters
I know a chick who whose parents offered her a 10,000 sqft mansion in Franklin, Tn (rich part of nashville) for FREE; but she decides to live in a shitty apartment in New York instead so she can say she lives in New York

[Anonymous No.16919102]

[Anonymous No.16919103]

I understand businesses need face-to-face. But when you're a entry to mid level programmer or design engineer, there's no reason to live in these dense overpriced cities. My boss is in meetings 30 hours a week, but I can work at home for about half of my responsibilities through the week and nobody gives a shit. I don't understand how in this day and age, telecommuting hasn't broken shit like this down.

[Anonymous No.16919142]

>>16919103
Boomers are tech-illiterate shitheads, even in the tech sector, contradictingly enough.

[Anonymous No.16919154]

>>16914054

What do you do?

[Anonymous No.16919188]

>>16912533
You can have your own room for fsr cheaper than that even in more expensive cities
People are just stupid

[Anonymous No.16919193]

>>16919040
fuck franklin, everything is closed at like 8:00PM

[Anonymous No.16919202]

>>16919103
i have a full remote job and the senior boomers bitch constantly about the difficulty of managing a remote team. i expect remote positions to be more common as the years go by but i doubt they'll ever be very common.

[Anonymous No.16919237]

>he doesnt want to pay $1500 to live in podschwitz

[Anonymous No.16919263]

>>16919193
>fuck franklin, everything is closed at like 8:00PM
Judge beans is open till 9 but usually can hang around till 10:30 in brentwood

[Anonymous No.16919275]

>>16919193
oh, and don't forget about The Pond

[Anonymous No.16919335]

>>16912505
>
>>16912562

What

I work not in a city
I work in a lab, I make 30k a year, and I own my own house (4b/2bath) and an acre of land and I'm in my late 20s

Why do city people think that only farms exist outside of their big city limits

[Anonymous No.16919354]

Are city cucks still under the delusion that their bloated, homeless infested city is the only way to afford a comfortable living?

[Anonymous No.16919362]

>>16919335
i mean yeah the perk of living in bumfuck is everything is cheap

[Anonymous No.16919398]

>>16916529
>What is a library
>What are stinky homeless heroin addicts jerking it to porn on public access library computers

[Anonymous No.16919410]

it's a pretty obvious trade off.
city: expensive a shit. cockroaches in most apartments. homeless people everywhere.
bumfuck: cheap. you can buy a house making only 30k/year. everyone in your town has sub 100 IQ. nothing to do except learn how to paint bob ross landscapes of your beautiful countryside.

[Anonymous No.16919427]

>>16919362
Its not though. Its near 3 cities, I'm 10 minutes from my university and 20-30 minutes from gentrification central. Close-ish the biggest set of breweries in the southeast. I have a CSA from the local farms for meats and a CSA for vegetables. Best burger in the nation by food magazine a few years ago is literally 5 minutes away. Some of the best BBQ in the US.


It's just not NY/SF/SD/DC/Chicago.

I travel a lot and have had extended stays in quite a few of those cities, including boston for a few years. There is nothing special about them at all, they just cost more to live in. SF has some nice restaurants, but I mean. I've had better for cheaper.

[Anonymous No.16919432]

$350 a week for a fucking shared bunk bed. Just nuke america now.

[Anonymous No.16919439]

>>16913798
unironically more Freedum in the pen. Murica, get your shit together

[Anonymous No.16919442]

>>16919410
That's not the tradeoff at all. It's not black/white "either deal with SF prices or live in bumfuck", there are hundreds of cities around the US that are super cheap and have just as much shit as the major cities.

[Anonymous No.16919444]

>>16919103
Whats funny is that parts of the government are pretty big on telecommuting to the point where some agencies have a large majority of their workforce at home.

[Anonymous No.16919448]

major city: elite tier art and music scene. you'll work with the cream of the crop in your industry (if you aren't a retard). stinks like piss everywhere you go. takes 2 hours to get to a bar you like.
bumfuck: one bar that everyone drinks at. nice people but they're all generally retarded. no one of an importance will ever come within 20 miles of your town. house is probably not infested with cockroaches. generally smells good like the outdoors.

[Anonymous No.16919460]

>>16919427
I'm just taking the piss really, I live in a 250k pop east coast city and it's better than alright. i am eyeing a move to a larger city though, just because i want to work in real fintech.

[Anonymous No.16919463]

>>16912505
Any links to prove this story is even real, after 180+ replies?

[Anonymous No.16919520]

This is happening in Hollywood. Comparing one of the most extremely overpriced parts of the world to live in to whatever your situation is outside of one of them is stupid, nobody pays those kinds of prices elsewhere.

[Anonymous No.16919559]

>>16919460
Look at some tech hubs that are starting to pop up in other areas if you like startups. Orlando (lol don't go there), triangle area, and some others in the midwest (twin cities I think?) have pretty damn booming hubs and pay out the ass, but don't have the downsides of the bigger cities.

That's if you don't care for big cities. Get dat $$$

[Anonymous No.16919585]

>>16912562
I work for myself online and I could literally live anywhere in the world with a laptop (preferably with a monitor for dual setup but not essential) and internet connection.

[Anonymous No.16919596]

>>16919585
yeah but i've been doing software for 7 years and im still too retarded to figure out how to do this. your situation is literally the most desirable.

[Anonymous No.16919622]

>>16912505
This is why /r/latestagecapitalism exists. $1,400 to rent a fucking bed. Jesus Christ.

[Anonymous No.16919649]

>>16919596
Yeah it's been good. I do mostly paid ads promoting affiliate offers. However I finished my cybersecurity degree last year and I feel like I should actually use it sooner rather than later so I got a job in cybersecurity consulting at a big4 accounting firm starting in a few months. At least I'll have something on my CV and when I go back to working for myself I would be able to get a job 10-15 years down the road if everything goes to shit and I need a "real" job. My thinking is that if I just finished my degree and kept working online for myself, I wouldn't have anything on my CV if I wanted a job in 10-15 years making it much harder.

Idk. All I really want to do is move to Thailand/SEA and live like a king while working a couple hours a day from my laptop. I'm currently making good money so it would be pretty easy. Also even if I had no income at all I could still live in Thailand very comfortably for years and years.

[Anonymous No.16919655]

unironically you can rent an entire house with 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms in a nice area too, here in texas for like 1100 a month

[Anonymous No.16919673]

>>16919649
I have a couple large gaps on my resume that have no impacted me whatsoever because I have a portfolio of applications I've built on my own. I can all but guarantee that your experience working for yourself will be enough to get a good job somewhere if shit hits the fan.

[Anonymous No.16919689]

>>16912505
>proud of having nothing
what a complete retard. how does this dude get laid?
>hey baby wanna fuck in my bunk bed?
>i rented a condom

[Anonymous No.16919700]

>>16919649
oh i see now. yeah idk if you can i'd make a long term project of building something interesting to add to your portfolio that you can talk about at job interviews, if shit hits the fan. this would require at least a few extra hours a week though, probably indefinitely.

[Anonymous No.16919715]

>>16919673
Fuck well that was really my only justification for becoming a wage-cuck. That and I feel like it would be a waste of a degree, the 4 years it took me to get it and of course the money spent on getting it. And all that because I felt like I owed it to my parents to go to university, not because I wanted to considering I've been making solid money online since I was 14 and taught myself coding, networking, marketing, etc.. I felt like I would let my parents down if I didn't and would be a failure in their eyes because they don't really understand what I do, they just think I play videogames on my computer all day.

[Anonymous No.16919749]

>>16919715
i genuinely think times are changing. i've done plenty of interviews at this point with two massive gaps in my resume and basically everyone just glossed over it. i am pretty confident its because my github is somewhat interesting/impressive. ive built an ecommerce site, mobile apps, some other stuff...but yeah i mean the downside of all of this is i feel like i kinda work my ass off all the time so idk. if i could make money on my own i would do it in a heartbeat.

[Anonymous No.16919788]

>>16919715
i'd say wage cuck for awhile if you feel compelled to, give it at least a year, and then evaluate how you feel about it. honestly i'd try to keep up with the work your doing on your own so you have it to slide back into if you hate waging, but i am a workaholic idiot.

[Anonymous No.16919795]

>>16919689
>It costs $2000/mo to "have nothing"
imagine

[Anonymous No.16919804]

if he's 27 and makes around $40-50K per year doing social media fagshit then it sort of makes sense for him to rent everything and be lean. however, paying 600/mo and 1400/mo for desk and bed are terrible ideas. guy sounds like a huge wasteful retard. look up his linkedin i wonder where he works.

[Anonymous No.16919872]

ITT brainlets

By "desk" they mean an office whith all the perks so you can work. 600 is not bad they don't actually mean that they literally give him some old desk and charge him 600 a month

[Anonymous No.16920062]

>>16919872
What perks are worth $600 a month? If he wasn't renting out a fucking bunk bed he'd have room to buy a nice desk for $200 maximum from amazon or ikea and the he could use the additional $400 that would be required for his little faggy ass warmer accessory and coffe maker or whatever. He's wasting $7200 a moth that could be in his pocket. And it's even worse considering he could littlerally live anywhere since he's not tethered to working in a specific location.

[Anonymous No.16920175]

>>16913837
What's wrong is that the traditional home is too expensive for most people.

[Anonymous No.16920448]

>>16919788
Yeah I'm definitely going to do it, I've committed to it now - signed all the contracts and whatnot. I mean, I think it's a great job with great opportunities. It also look good on the resume, cybersecurity consulting at a big4 accounting firm. I'll see how it goes and will definitely keep my online business going. I'm a massive workaholic too, I'm always either optimising my campaigns, checking stats or making new websites for my ads.

[Anonymous No.16920531]

How many threads are you queers gonna make about this stupid bunk bed place?

[Anonymous No.16920748]

>>16915589
He’s not that far off. Min wage is 12 and in certain counties it’s probably 15 like New York. So that means min wage and full time pulls in $1920 gross and is in the lowest tax bracket

[Anonymous No.16920847]

>>16920748
I ment min wage is $12 in CA. You can get $15 burger flipping even

[Anonymous No.16920941]

>>16912790
It's mostly that, so you're right about the insanity, start-ups spending triple to be in a cool Ikea set up, when they couuld get regular office space way chea^per (but also way les kewl, so there's that, top fucking kek)
The only thing that ùmakes sense with Wework is big companies renting roomes for training sessions and/or special projects where you need more space than usual, or privacy (being away from company grounds). I work in a firm that does that, because the extra romm requirements aren't constant enough that it justifies acquiring a new building

[Anonymous No.16920998]

>>16912865
I actually lived and worked in the US, and from what I've seen, there's a tiny minority of people who get it better than they would in Europe, at the expenseof everyone else, who gets it worse.
Even the wages are an illusion. Accounting for insurance, retirement, medical, unemployment etc;;; and all the thing s you pay for yourself, I realized making 90k in the US is equivalent to making 60k in Europe (I'mcomparing major cities, LA/NY on one hand, Paris on the other. I made 90k in the US, and couldn' t afford a different lifestyle than with 60 in France (unless I went full retard and get credits for evrything like most Americans I met)

[Anonymous No.16921007]

>>16912505
Dumb nigger should save 600 dollars a month by going to the fucking library, and spend that saved money on hookers and shitcoins

[Anonymous No.16921024]

>>16912505
this isn't a story, this nigger is a fake person you just made up for your despair propaganda
even the names on your pic don't match your story
kike

[Anonymous No.16921036]

>>16912865
your economy isn't strong
your equity and derivatives bubble is just colossal

[Anonymous No.16921076]

>>16920531
it resonates with motherfuckers, same as the wage cage

[Anonymous No.16921086]

>>16912505
Theres studio apartments in Hollywood for for 1400 a month

[Anonymous No.16921106]

I pay $2000 per month, but that is 3 floors and 3 bedrooms in Oslo.

[Anonymous No.16921952]

>>16914328
>why are retarded foreigners deluding themselves into thinking this is how the average American lives or wants to live? t
no one thinks that or implied such

[Anonymous No.16921965]

>>16912580
A wework woupdn't confirm he exclusively telecommutes.

[Anonymous No.16922135]

>>16913798
Literally paying to be in jail lmao

[Anonymous No.16922170]

>>16919872
The thing is, with $2000 he could afford a private room in a house with an actual door and have money left over to buy a desk every month.

[Anonymous No.16922203]

>>16912505
This is like seeing a man that has been castrated and kept as a pet. This is sad and I feel pity for him. I own 30 acres of land, a farm, two cars. A man needs to have private property. This guy is a communist. This is what this "share" everything culture leads to, communism. Private property is a holy, unalienable right, essential to liberty and individualism. Any man who doesn't own property is a neutered slave cuck. Indeed, a consequence of city life, jew culture and economy, and communism. Very sad!

[Anonymous No.16922529]

>>16912865
Your strong economy is a bubble waiting for bursting every now and then lmao

[Anonymous No.16923493]

>>16920175
>What's wrong is that the traditional home is too expensive for most people.

Because they are retards trying to live in hip places instead of somewhere nice and cheap.

[Anonymous No.16923545]

>>16912505
>He pays $1,400 a month to rent a bunk and an additional $600 a month to rent a desk to work at.
HA!!!!!!!!!!!!! He pays more for his bunkbed & desk at work than I do on my mortage. But he's so free, right?

[Anonymous No.16923591]

>>16922203
this. my goal is bigger house & land. I make decent money, but I live in a shitty townhome in NJ and feel like i live in a prison.

[Anonymous No.16923709]

>>16923591
Get that house and land if you can afford it. Especially so if you have a family. I too was imprisoned by a city once and was miserable.

People say that you don't have anything to do in the countryside, but it's the opposite. You can be outside and get fresh, clean air for once, you can do fun stuff outside with your friends and family, like barbeques, sports, play with kids, fix cars, have farm animals, hike on trails, offroad. Any kind of natural, manly stuff that's healthy. Also, in my experience rural communities are less degenerate and more wholesome in general.

Yes, every small town has its drunks and do-nothings, but at least you're not swering around heroin needles and there's probably a community/church/school where you can raise a decent family.

I hope you reach your goal. It's liberating.

[Anonymous No.16923722]

>>16923591
*Swerving around

[Anonymous No.16923757]

>>16913755

checked and based

[Anonymous No.16924161]

>>16919102

nightmare

[Anonymous No.16924490]

You guys are fascinated by this article. It's months old and gets reposted every week.

Why?

[Anonymous No.16924581]

>>16924490
It makes us feel better because no matter how crappy our financial lives are, at least you're not this stupid cuck living in a bunk bed. Hell, I grew up in Eastern Europe and compared to this guy, I feel wealthy. Not all of us here are millionaires, but at least when you see stupid cunts like this one, you can thank your lucky stars that at least you're not THAT stupid.

Even if the story is just a made up meme, you just know there are motherfuckers out there are are this stupid to pay to live in pods (bunk beds) and rent out meme offices they don't need.

[Anonymous No.16924887]

>16924581
So ya grew up in Eastern Europe and you think Western news organizations spread disinformation

Also you have opinions about people in the USA and what their living arrangement says about them, namely, that renting a bed is for 'cunts'.

Portfolio prediction: 100% BSV

[Anonymous No.16925211]

>>16924887
Sorry, don't own any coins right now. Had the OG Bitcoin since back in 2012. Now I only have stocks, quality stocks not meme stocks like TSLA.

[Anonymous No.16925260]

>>16912505
>He pays $1,400 a month to rent a bunk and an additional $600 a month to rent a desk
Great, now I want to be that person who gets retards to pay $2000/month for using a bed and desk.

[Anonymous No.16925331]

>>16912505
Just work from Starbucks. Even if you get 2 drinks a day and work full-time you'll spend like $200/month max.

[Anonymous No.16925915]

>>16912505
Imagine paying $2000 a month for a bed and desk
fucking blown out kek

[Anonymous No.16926596]

>>16925211
the meme stock that's made me a house deposit in three months, get over yourself lmao

[Anonymous No.16926719]

>>16912547
yeah that's the funny thing about this meme. this motherfucker doesn't own anything, but he's still broke from spending all his money renting everything.
>have not car
>have no kitchen in the pod
>pay $20 for uber eats to deliver a sandwich everyday.
kek. also, wtf PodShare?!?

[Anonymous No.16926765]

>>16912796
and other hipsters in the building. I think that's really the draw for these cucks. hipsters are a needy bunch and can't stray too far from their own kind without being sad.

[Anonymous No.16926971]

>>16925915
OP just added the prices in, see >>16913880
no source given on prices