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in 2026 this is far more difficult. surveillance tech and AI has turned privacy into a premium feature.

I’ve seen people (nearly) lose their jobs as their employers did silent background checks throughout the year to confirm that they haven’t been convicted of a crime and it come back that Thier registered address didnt belong to them as state police were getting bad information from a databroker. flock was misreading thier plates and thinking they were living 1h away in a parking lot…

point is, when mistakes like that are made, it shows how hard it is to hide when you are doing something.

in many parts of the world, it’s a criminal offense not to have a permanent residency with a mailing address registered to you.

vagrancy laws first existed due to health and wealthfare concerns (albeit this was a lie), but reality is these laws remained.

as a result many employers, when they do background checks and discover you don’t have one, have to deny you as your a liability.

if your already employed, if your employer finds out, they can fire you and request compensation, due to violating liability insurance clauses.

the only way to typically do this successfully is to be self employed or to be a day labourer.

this is all before the tax issues that apply…

as some one who spent many months homeless while employed and hiding it from their employer because they didn’t make enough to continue living in a sublease… yeah… most people that prefer that typically are on a ton of copium to avoid society or actively are doing it to skirt legal requirements, to maintain a “lifestyle”…

that said, all the more power to anyone’s personal choices. I personally hate the system that makes the bare minimum include being homeless.

oh I am? so your time has no value?

there is this bridge I want to build and since you have so much free time and don’t value any of it, why dont you help me. since I’m providing the materials making it free, it shouldn’t be a issue, right?

it’s way cheaper to buy a bag of self rising flour, and active yeast, make your own bread. and grow your own potatoes endlessly from making seed potatoes from half of every potato you harvest.

but litterally that my point, your talking a $8 difference depending on your region between ingredients and prepared. – delivery fees vary wildly, I’ve gotten $40 worth of food with a $4 delivery fee… then a few months later ordered a single pizza to share that costed me $50 and a $18 delivery fee, because it had 3 toppings and was Sicilian style…

live alone and make a single serving?

do agree on coffee, however I also live in a nation that makes some amazing coffee and $2-3 a cup 1-2x a week is reasonable. my Keurig or espresso machine takes longer and only is as cost effective if I’m drinking it every day (those unground beans go stale rather quick :( – unfortunately flavoured creamers are not a thing really outside of the states to cover the taste of stale coffee)

your litterally commenting on your local area. my local area “large” (which are tiny) range from $5.80(cheapest, store branded, 12pack) to $11.40 (regional mega farm brand, 12pack). [for posterity, there is premium free-range for $14].

local supermarkets stock around 8 cartons of the store brand and are sold out by noon. they often are frozen in storage to extend shelf life, and as a result have terrible taste. I’ve stopped buying them, unless I’m baking something.

rice per kg is the least effective regionally. it has to be brought in from overseas, it’s not grown here. however, it is still quite inexpensive per volume. $32/kg for jasmine.

for a hearty meal of 2 veggies, a protein, and a starch, the cheapest I can achieve locally is $13 for 2 servings. if you include my 20-40 minutes of prep, and 12 minutes of cook time. that makes the meal “cost” me around $31.

time spent cooking, is time not spent doing hobbies, reading, learning new skills to gain better employment or simply relaxing.

I’m not advocating for door dash every night, that’s insane. but 1-3 times a week pays for it’s self, if you consider your own value as part of the equation.

money is just a figure of value. your time is valuable. if you work 14-16 hour days (including commute time), time spent outside of work, “working” is not resting.

the amount of people I’ve seen burnt out as they spend all Thier time outside of work with habits that don’t value their own time, just Thier wallets is rediculous. Money will be spent either way, spend it on things that don’t result in you being burnt out at 25 and struggling worse.

friendly reminder, if the veggie is Monsanto seeds, it’s a crime to plant them and they will actively seek you out if they find out.

and yes, they sell (fake) “organic” seeds. (they are still GMO)

I don’t know who you think is living “at their means” in 2026. either they already live just below it to survive or just above it sucking on debt to keep up appearances at the office (so they are not fired as a result!)

groceries, rent, fuel, insurance, everything, has never been more expensive. worse it’s not local to you, this is a world wide issue at the moment.

cost of living skyrocketed in mid 2024 and has only gone up since. what you are saying implies that people can “step down” from non-essentials, like we didn’t already do that in 2020. I don’t know anyone who has been able to live “at their means” since before covid.

I’m married to a engineer, our net income should be making us a nice cushion that makes sure neither of us have to worry. instead, we had to sell all of our cars, stop every hobby, go to leasing electric cars (as buying one is too expensive and cheap petrol cars like we had cost 4x what electric does per month…) and even after all of that…

still have to carefully decide what essential thing we are cutting out of the weekly food budget… I’ve eaten so much frozen chicken and imported fake honey & pb sandwiches in the last two years for most of my meals to feel nauseated every time I see a KFC… I still wonder how anyone below our income bracket can afford anything without litterally deciding they can never save any money… (and yes before saving 70% of our combined income is going to expenses.)

compared to 2018, when only 40% was going to expenses and we could enjoy life. this is just ridiculous. reality is far worse than people realise right now…

have you tried being homeless! imagine the money you can save, not paying rent! you can afford to buy a house in ~20000 years (in the irradiated zones)…

fun fact. if you include your time cooking and calculate the effort and mental strain involved, giving in a financial value… it’s not like that $8 premium is saving you anything…

eggs cost $12 in some places still. groceries are not cheap.

while I agree, the image implies that everyone complaining is not. aka “Eat less avacado on toast”.

when in reality it means “be homeless, you will save a ton on rent!” something about the disconnect of the wealthy editors.

perfect example of “coffee is hot” signs/labels. I think we all deeply understand the sentiment that the general public, is in fact, generally willfully inconsiderate to themselves and others, when they want something lol

Unless you physically impede some one, to disrupt their flow, they will not think twice about desire fulfillment in today’s society… Everyone needs to pee, but not everyone respects your need to pee.

NYC has laws that punish the poor for existing, allow people to piss in the streets and lets the homeless masturbate on public infrastructure/buses/trains to passers by, rather than get them the help they need by funding anything besides billionaires.

NYC is a example of a century of continued messes by wealthy, bigoted men… (and im not just talking the ghoul in a suit, “Garden Center” Giuliani)

its deeper than that, Cost of operation. Who pays the cleaning staff to disinfect those tiles so bacterial growth doesn’t occur? Plastics and many cheaper materials are bio-inhibitors. They can be covered in fecal and urine waste and not be literal petri dishes for bacteria, fungus’s and mold.

they also look plain (IE: “Industrial”, currently a desirable artistic trait. When we live in a society that is all doomer and see’s everything for its resale “potential”) and last a relatively long times(plastic erosion is significantly slower than cheap tile). In a era where operating a business is less about making or selling products you believe in, but making sure your investors (bank/shareholders) get paid. its one major cost(staff) off the top.

More so when most businesses rent the buildings they use, they do not own them. You want to blame anyone, blame the landlords that charge based on location, not based on business profits + their own costs.

lol, i never said its a good solution, just the only reasonable one. The best solution is having government controlled public restrooms and regulating where dining institutions can operate their businesses to restrict them to areas where these restrooms are located.

Then have a always on-staff, thats well trained, well payed and lives in the local area. A Government personnel to keep them clean and paid for by tax payers, rather than wait staff that are forced to do it on top of their already demanding jobs of dealing with customers. Treat it as public infrastructure like roads and sewer and the problem solves its self. People generally treat public infrastructure much better than business infrastructure. They see business infrastructure as a outlet to their gripes with a businesses practices. Some one wants to vandalize? its suddenly not a business they are messing with, but a government facility… holds a lot more legal weight and punishment. Additionally staff have only one job, that bathroom facility, so if something happens, they are not going to miss it for 12 hours until some one complains…

Would it be worth if financially? yes. Most governments spend more per year on research groups to make policy decisions than staffing. Staffing costs are generally one of the lowest operation costs, and infrastructure pays for its self when you tax businesses for the use of it. Businesses ultimately save money, as its additional infrastructure they dont need to maintain or clean, and less operational cost.

Will it be done? no lol
Nearly every nation is trying to shift national operational costs to private industry as decades of corporations lobbying and pressuring has made it appear as if its cheaper to build it and sell it to them, then to operate it yourself. People are stupid and easily convinced against their own best interest, because they get situational biased based on the fact bad experiences are heavier than good ones mentally and businesses know how to placate them with sweet words and entertainment… We will own nothing and like it. its the future.

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I mean, digital receipts and signs would take care of both those problems lol

Most parts of the world, public restrooms cost money.

I mean most ceos went to uni for business and paid others to do their course work it seems. Then got hired on the vibes.

Shareholders care about only one thing, and its not the company or its employees. Of course maniacal idiots are at the top of the list for CEO, their too narcissistic and lack empathy to care.