I'm solid GenX.
My grandparents bought a house on a corner lot in the northwest suburbs of Chicago for $6000. Which was about a years salary for Grampa, who worked as a welder. This was in the late 60s.
ETA: Their mortgage was around $50.00 a month.
They're scrip. Spendable at the company store.
Everything old is new again.
If you don't think that economic slavery is real and exists in modern society, there's no point in further conversation.
Frederick Douglass, arguing for unity among black and white laborers in 1883, said that “experience teaches us that there may be a slavery of wages only a little less galling and crushing in its effects than chattel slavery, and that this slavery of wages must go down with the other.”
Sh.itjust.works uses matrix like any normal lemmy instance would.
No. They'll be righteously smug as they try to keep up.
What's that? Oh shit, can they hear us? Turn it off, TURN IT OFF!
Nah, man. If your views involve forcing the birth of a baby with spina-bifida or my wife carrying a dead fetus for three months or more, you can get fucked.
All 911 of them.
I live in West Virginia, I can attest that they are fucking rabid about Trump 2024.
Not a spider.
Mold.
NSFL doesn't exist as a tag. Your only choice is to tag it NSFW.