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I haven't heard it as much in the midwest. "I can't afford x right now" is what I hear more commonly. To me poverty has a longer-term temporal component vs ha
by tedmiston 8y ago
I haven't heard it as much in the midwest. "I can't afford x right now" is what I hear more commonly.
To me poverty has a longer-term temporal component vs having surplus money and choosing to allocate it to different optional goods or activities.
- cableshaft 8y agoI'm from the Midwest. I'm guilty of saying it. But that being said, 1) there was a time where I was seriously contemplating declaring bankruptcy, so I think that qualifies under the authors definition of 'poor', and 2) I don't see the value in making this distinction of 'poor' and 'broke' anyway. Sure there's a matter of degree of difference involved, but it just sounds like making an argument of semantics. If the general usage is using your word wrong, invent a new word for it and popularize it, or just be more specific. Meaning of words gets co-opted and morphed by the public all the time anyway. I don't see this author creating any serious movement towards reclaiming the word "poor" for what they think it really means.