Tag: poverty
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The Difference Between Frugal and Hoarding
“I don’t think frugality is about not spending, it’s about not wasting.”
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Madagascar's Take on Western Civilization
“We have virtually endless sources of education from the internet and yet we spend our time doing other things.”
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How Parents Tell Their Children About Poverty (or Don't)
” It breaks your heart. It breaks your heart because it breaks your parents a little everyday.”
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Stay in the Popemobile
“You can’t start talking like this and not piss off some crazy powerful people.”
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A Welfare Office Worker Clears Up Common Misconceptions
A welfare worker challenges idiocy in a Reddit thread: “Firstly, it’s barely any money. It’s pathetically small. If you’ve heard of people making 40k on Welfare, they are a rare exception who get it because of bizarre newsworthy loopholes. Everyone I saw today in the welfare office was pretty unhappy, and desperately poor. I literally (no, […]
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Don't Let Them Eat Cake
“My family always received SNAP and TANF benefits…. and as long as mom didn’t trade too many of our bennies for cash, we could buy fast and easy garbage food with SNAP so that us kids could leave her alone and feed ourselves. I was never taught how to do anything remotely like “cook an […]
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Being Poor Has a Stigma
“Yet some of the things you say about being rich remind me of how it is to be poor. While you can travel anywhere and experience nothing, I couldn’t travel anywhere and still experience nothing. When I was at home, I stared at the same blank 4 walls daily, and when I went into the […]