Maybe if Peter was paid a living wage, had rent that wasn’t price fixed, wasn’t at the mercy of artificial inflation, could afford to buy a home without an outrageous interest rate, a retirement age and pension that could support his retirement, and had all the economical advantages the boomers had… he wouldn’t be in a bar drinking himself into an early grave.
But, let’s blame Spider-Man.
I just don’t want to participate in a society that literally doesn’t care about it’s future or it’s children enough to actually help them.
It’s not giving up it’s just a refusal to add to the problem and fight against a community of individuals trying to take as much from everyone else as possible.
And unfortunately that means dying young, poor, and unable to help myself.
had all the economical advantages the boomers had
Spiderman was born in the 50s. He absolutely got all the economic advantages the boomers had.
Ehhh, that’s kinda like Batman though. Peter Parker is eternally a teenager/young twenties, just like Bruce Wayne is always in his late twenties/ early thirties, except that one comic.
Feel free to cross-post to Mildly Infuriating for the spelling error.
Wait you guys have a 5 year plan?
It’s a plan for yourself for where you want to be 5 years from now so you can figure out what you need to do to get there.
I want to own a home, so my plan includes figuring out where I need to move to make that possible because where I live right now it’s literally impossible as a single person.
If you don’t mind living in the middle of nowhere, and you live in the US, save up for a mobile home. You can get a used one dirt cheap, (<$10,000 in most of the middle of the country,) and it will be perfectly functional. Look up land that is still covered by the homestead act, put the trailer on the closest available land. Fence off up to 500 acres, depending on jurisdiction, and improve the land for five years. Apply for a deed from the Federal Government. Enjoy your free land. Make sure you survey the land, not all of it is actually desirable.
Edit: bonus if the land is forested. Get a chainsaw sawmill and build “additions” to your mobile home until the mobile home is no longer needed, and you have a house. Also clear at least 300 feet from your house in case of forest fires.
As a kid I always wondered why spiderman had to struggle for rent. I get that is part of his charm, but can’t the city of NY give him a stipend? Can’t Tony start pay him a salary? Damn Tony just give him one of your penthouses. Reminder that when Tony died he could have changed Peter and May’s entire life if he had just left a crumb for them in his will.
The new Holland trilogy is for sure gonna be deadbeat Peter since nobody remembers him now. But yeah in the 80s and 90s comic he’s in space doing missions with Avengers, then in NY struggling with rent. Made no sense to me. Even worse when he couldn’t afford rent but he had a damn Spider car!
From a narrative standpoint, Spider-Man’s entire thing is thematically tied to the idea that “no good deed goes unpunished.” Peter Parker’s academic, professional, and social life all pay a price to enable his crime fighting. Spider-Man 2 does a good job of portraying that. After he stops the train that was about to crash in his fight with Doc Ock, he gets lifted up, arms outstretched, looking like a crucified Jesus. He suffers for the sake of others. It’s honestly a nice contrast to people like Tony Stark for whom being a billionaire playboy superhero has historically (if not in the Marvel movies) been depicted as coming with a fairly comfortable life. Well, at least ignoring the part of his backstory where he went homeless because of his alcoholism. But that was in the eighties, I think.
Iirc they originally wanted the iron man movies to show the damages done by his behavior and his alcoholism more like the comics but they ended up getting rushed to make a sequel to cash in on the popularity of the first movie instead
I’m sure that RDJ’s own alcoholism may have played a role there as well. Don’t want to trigger a relapse.
I think Peter does end up working for Stark in some of the comics. Then he goes on to form Parker Industries later on.
Which is odd too. I can’t picture Peter as a captain of industry. He’s brilliant but lazy remember? He’s not a leader. He’s that kid that forgets to turn off the oven, or runs off to chase a criminal instead of going to class. That kind of lifestyle doesn’t Jive with Spidey
In the comics, he wasn’t paired with Tony Stark. He was famously unreliable, always disappearing to fight crime.
And he couldn’t make rent in 1970’s NY.
Tbf, a guy who’s that unreliable would have a ton of difficulty holding any job at all due to unexcused absence. He’d probably be working below minimum wage or getting fired every other week.
Although things have obviously changed a lot. I’m reading mercy Thompson right now, where a character complains about barely being able to afford living alone after giving away 60% of their check. Iirc they’re supposedly a waitress.
I mean, he worked as a teacher, and an engineer, which is not exactly dead end.