• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    boring corporatists

    Nothing boring about a 110 heat index or a river so slick with filth that the smell alone is hazardous to your health. Nevermind the sky-high electricity bills created by our energy-hungry AI industry or the enormous landfills choked with plastic waste or the privatized schools that serve up a McEducation for an exorbitant price.

    There’s this baseline claim that Biden will keep the state of the country the same. But we’re not a fly trapped in amber, here. We’ve got infrastructure that’s still deteriorating despite the promise of Infrastructure Reinvestment. We’ve got grocery bills that are still rising despite the Inflation Reduction Act. We’ve got real estate consolidation in the residential and agricultural sectors that are steadily raising rents. We’ve got a finance industry that is dead set on forcing everyone onto a highly speculative cryptocurrency system. We’ve got war profiteers racking it in overseas while defense contractors at home sink billions into a militarized southern border.

    This is under Biden. Yeah, sure, blah blah Trump worse. But our best case scenario still looking incredibly bleak.

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      We’ve got real estate consolidation in the residential and agricultural sectors that are steadily raising rents.

      I’m so mad that buying land way out in the boonies and a pre built home depot shed house to plop on it is literally the only way I see myself owning any shelter…

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        3 months ago

        My brother took this exact route and its not as easy or cheap as it sounds. Even their nicest sheds have a ton of work to be done to make them livable, and after that you’ll need even more expensive work to make them up to code for your state. Your best bet if you are serious is to find a plot of land with their water/sewage/electricity/postal address already there (and a driveway or gravel road too if you can, that was expensive and took months of paperwork for some reason)

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          3 months ago

          Kinda figures… Every other route I could think of ended up with the same results “will cost close to a regular house anyway.” :/