I don't think ive ever seen a basement in real life
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Im glad someone else has seen through the charade. Welcome out of the matrix. It is now our responsibility to figure WHO and WHY they are spreading this false narrative. May god have mercy on our souls.
I saw one on a movie once, he worked for a financial company and killed a guy with an axe
that and no one can afford kids
No one has ever been able to afford kids. Kids are fucking expensive!!!
That’s not true. Kids used to pay for themselves. My grandmother had 14 siblings. Many of them started working right after grade 8 and handed over their pay to their parents to help support the family!
child labor, my favorite 😋😋😋
Ok....sure...my grandpas siblings quit school at that age - their mom sent them to work instead because they could earn a quarter a day. I'm not sure that was really paying for themselves.
They also worked on the farm and helped in but kitchen. Life was very different back then. Medical care wasn’t nearly as advanced, accessible, and expensive as it is today. School was brief and free, not an enormous expense like it is today. Food was cheap, just labour-intensive because you had to grow it yourself. Housing was cheap too: you largely built it yourself and you didn’t need 15 bedrooms for 15 kids: 3-4 would suffice.
In the future, the basement won't be known as the basement. It will be known as home because we won't be able to survive long on the main floor due to the radiation exposure and roaming raiding gangs.
Have you seen Parasite, the movie?
A generation without chicken tendies, the horror
where i live (texas), most houses I know don't have basements, so at least a part of texas is basement dweller free
I wonder why not. Most places I've lived that didn't couldn't due to the water table or ground stability. I wonder if it's just cheaper with how shitty houses are being built now.
Digging out a basement is expensive
Yes, and you have to dig deep in some places to get below the frost with your foundation. In those places a basement makes sense because you're digging that far either way. Texas frosts don't get very deep, so you're able to have a shallower foundation making a basement just an extra cost.