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>$1k
For:
> Rent in the destination, including deposits (a few months' rent)
> Furnishing, including replacing and installing kitchen appliances/repairing utilities (you're not going to get a recently refurbished place for cheap)
> Buffer for the months in which you're out of work (I'm not even going to argue against your silver-spoon "I had contacts and a sociopathic streak so it's easy for everyone", the paper economy encourages hiring sociopaths to crank up profits and to reduce the chance of do-gooders competing fairly instead of colluding like every corporation, and everyone else is fucked)
> Odds and ends (shipping, going back to pick up lost/forgotten items)
Unless you are working remotely and crashing at a friend's (in which case I give you that it's a piece of cake), a job market where you have to search for years to get a minimum-wage job that isn't taken by an immigrant and a housing market that's pretty much just a mafia by now makes moving states for $1k ridiculously impossible.
I think you missed a zero. $10k is going to be comfortable if nothing explodes in your face, but with $1k you'd be rejected for any apartment because you can't pay deposit and you have no sustainable income.
$10k leaves you enough money for shipping, installing that new stove because the one that ostensibly came "free" with the place is classed as a fire hazard, having something to eat while you're searching for a job and of course buying drugs because this is 420chan.
But I really do believe that you're a real-deal sociopath.
Because the hiring criteria for modern corporations and even small businesses rely on self-advertising, bragging and pushing at other people's expense, sociopaths get in like greased bullets and perpetuate the lie that it's easy to get a job if you're just willing to scheme to get it.
Though this doesn't usually go for mom-and-pop size businesses, they don't usually have the money to hire and have enough work experience (as well as no official training program) that Mom and Pop do it themselves and then immediately close instead of hiring when they're in trouble.
Normal people do not scope any shops they go into looking for opportunities to take advantage of.
Normal people do not feel good lying about their competences and abilities.
Normal people don't consider it a matter of course that you're cheating on your taxes and that you attempt to sway people into liking you for a personal reason.
Normal people want to work, and that's why they're not allowed to. Lack of employment and activation creates apathy, anxiety and depression, which you can FIX WITH PROZAC (TM) AND BEN AND JERRY'S (TM).
The more a person works, the more they spend on family, travel, friends and the like instead of games, drugs, fashion, media and snacks, which are the big big earners - and think of it, if people were allowed to work without needing to demonstrate that they can be trusted with the company's closet full of skeletons, they would get management positions eventually and cut down those 5000% profit margins, the Swiss bank accounts and the "company" Rolls Royce so that the money could end up in the workers' pockets.
And with dozens of years of saved-up mammon, a potential new generation would be able to create a world where everyone is provided a job as a matter of course because the economy exists for the sake of national profit and not personal profit, which pretty much removes the unemployed but power-consuming layer of society that the corporations breed by sponsoring welfare instead of lowering the profit margin just a bit so all of society can do some kind of work.
Because the massive spike in productivity and happiness you'd see wouldn't benefit the multinational corporations, only the country itself.
You can get the job because the system is made by people like you for people like you.
You're not going to get handed the company and then say "okay, I'm fine with minimum pay, also we're focusing on quality and not lies, zero the ad budget and go for word of mouth even if we take a short-term loss".
You're going to say "where can we cut product quality and safety for profit, and what misleading ads can we blast the production budget on to marginalize and stigmatize people who dare call us out on it". Comment too long. Click here to view the full text. |
