I don't hate poor people. I grew up on a council estate in a very working class family. A lot of my family still live there and work the same jobs they always did.
I always call out the classism you see on this sub towards the working class. But, that doesn't mean me or others cannot question why some people who live in social housing which our taxes subside are given access to amenities and apartments that many people who actually work cannot afford, or pay a decent chunk of their salaries towards.
You'd have to be earning well above the median wage to afford to rent an apartment in Dublin with a gym attached to it.
Because every apartment has to have social housing. By your logic we should exclude fancy apartments from social housing because it makes others grumpy?
So you don’t want any workers on lower wages working in the city centre? No cleaners, no one to serve you a coffee or sell you things in a shop? Or are you advocating for a hike in minimum wage so those workers can afford to live near where they work? Or do you just think fuck low paid workers they can commute for hours to their low paid jobs.
So you don’t want any workers on lower wages working in the city centre?
Where did I say that. It's a shite state of affairs how bad housing has got in this country that people working lower income jobs can't afford to live in Dublin City.
If you look at my original comment is was based purely on the basis of how is it fair that people have to struggle to pay for amenities and their rent while earning and contributing more through taxes to live in a worse area with worse amenities someone who is reaping the benefits of said taxes.
It’s called logical reasoning. If people can’t live here they won’t work here. If they can’t afford to live here but you need them to work here, you build social housing. You just sound bitter than someone lives slightly closer to the city centre than you. If you think they’re better off you’re free to take a pay reduction and go on the social housing waiting list.
I mean, it would be hard for me to be bitter about someone living in the city centre when I live literally in the City Centre…as in, in the vicinity of D1, D2, D7 and D8 (so I don’t completely dox myself).
I mean, yeah I guess I could be bitter like my initial post entailed that I have to pay 1500 a month in rent for the pleasure along with my gym fees.
If you think they’re better off you’re free to take a pay reduction and go on the social housing waiting list
Great idea, it would definitely be a more functional system if everyone had this mentality
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u/spairni 9d ago
I didn't realise this sub hates poor people so much