bansama: Off topic, but personally, when my children are teenagers and earning their own money I will be charging them rent. No way in hell I'm going to let my children continue eating all the food and using large amounts of electricity/water for free.
And ultimately, I need to prevent them from becoming "parasites" -- which actually is a fairly major problem in Japan. If they don't like it, they can move out =)
akwater: See that im ok with.
I paid rent based on my gross income from 14 to 16, something like 31% of my income went towards rent, another 10% went to food/water/power. So that had left me with a realistic outlook of how much money I really would have would I was older. Granted I didnt realize that until much later.
So yeah, i was pissed back then, but now, after actually having to pay for those things in the real world after taxes i am thankful i had that treatment.
Tarm: So is that good or bad?
Rohan15: Let me put it like this....
Would you like it if you worked 30 hour weeks part-time and not be able to spend a dime of your paycheck because your mother thinks that spending money on games that are not at full price a waste of money and she blows your paychecks on eating out at restaurants?
Steam: Helping the little guy with jerkoff parents.