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There are few things that appear more crass than this. Have you ever been poor?

• matte_black 9y ago
  When I was poor I couldn’t afford to go dumping 2 or 4 days worth of work into weird schemes. Once I did have more money though, I did get swindled, and for probably 10x as much. But I learned. Maybe the people taking part in these pyramids aren’t as poor as you think, but probably still poor by some standard.
  • tomc1985 9y ago
    Sadly there is not very much overlap between that kind of logic and poverty. Remember all the people that blew their FEMA debit cards on strippers and shoes? $150 was a huge amount of money when I was poor. It represented several-days to a week's worth of earnings. You've got to be doing alright for yourself for $150 to only be a day or two's worth of pay, after taxes and expenses.