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Made the mistake of reading a Stranger article about landlords who are pissing and moaning about the city's attempt to restore some shred of sanity to local housing.
It had the headline "If You Don’t Make the Money, Why Do You Have the Right to Live in the City?" and that triggered my self-hate and DOOOM SENSE something fierce.
And then I made the mistake of reading the comments, and was reminded this city's chock full of libertarians again thanks to Amazon.
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I tried debating on the associated Reddit thread a little, but I'm so disheartened by the amount of support the Galt's Gulch crowd is getting. I told them something along the lines of "well, have fun cleaning your own toilets & brewing your own espresso, motherfuckers" and closed the browser in a nasty mood. Haven't been quite right since.
I could really use any sense whatsoever of a safety net or permission to fail a little right now. But I know it ain't coming.
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Anyhow, it'll make moving away that much easier, if this town is really filling up with engineers and finance types that only want to live side-by-side with other engineers and finance types.
I'd like to get just one last temp job at Amazon before I leave Seattle for good. 'Cause I want to steal from them hand over fist right now. No excuses, no apologies, it's just pure adolescent fury and outrage at work. And frankly, I'd rather just punch Bezos directly. >___<
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(It's all complicated a bit by the fact I still have some Evil Centrist political sympathies, and I actually sympathize with a few things the rentier class is pissed about. Like, the proposal to force them to ignore criminal records when choosing tenants sounds like a potential nightmare to me. But the subsequent hate-fest against the poor, largely by people admitting they made all their money from property, still fills me with plenty of loathing & self-loathing.)
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It's like, motherfucker, making a bunch of money off of the houses you own is not a goddamned moral achievement. Stop acting like BEING ON YOUR FUCKING PLANET is some kind of unearned entitlement we're pretending to. And stop acting like there isn't something REAL FUCKING ABNORMAL about the way modern capitalism distributes wealth. All I know is that my mom busted her ass 40 years teaching people's kids and is broke, and Donald Trump is extremely rich. Fuck Terra.
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@zebratron2084 Everyone wants a thriving quirky community filled with indy bookstores, neat eateries, presumably schools which don't suck, etc. At some level it becomes assumed as something that just happens, possibly because the same people behind that assumption believe that if you're not OBVIOUSLY homeless or living in the obvious ghetto chunks, you've gotta have a salary and lifestyle comparable to them right?
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@zebratron2084 I understand this one, the way that the IMPORTANT PEOPLE are supposed to turn over money to other IMPORTANT PEOPLE who are landlords and somehow, security/food service/warehouse/janitorial staff/everything else required to keep tech companies going will just magically be there no matter what.
And yeah. The fucking landlords who drive us little people out are still being complete bastards to the GOOD PEOPLE.