Techies are paying $700 a month to rent tiny bed 'pods' in downtown SF
www.sfgate.com
Brownstone is renting out 'pods' for $700 a month in San Francisco's SoMa neighborhood, and techies are taking them.

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  • 01011English
    27·
    9 months ago

    History suggests that the USA really isn’t better than this. If you ignore the post WWII boom period, workers being treated terribly is the norm.

    • ViewSonik@lemmy.worldEnglish
      46·
      9 months ago

      Well, no. Im not going to ignore the last 80 years. Of course progress takes time and future-looking we can still do much better. We have the means, we have the land, we have the know how.

      • 01011English
        11·
        9 months ago

        Workers have been treated progressively worse since the Reagan era. You’re really only talking about a few decades of labor progress in the last century followed by decline.

        • Gsus4@feddit.nlEnglish
          5·
          9 months ago

          And that was only because they had to beat the nazis and afterwards prove that capitalism wasn’t worse for common folk than communism. Once that credible bogeyman was gone, we were left with TINA, so they went back to screwing everyone over.