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I feel like being poor has lost a lot of its negative stigma. These days I find myself casually letting people know that I'm poor in order to get more favorabl

I feel like being poor has lost a lot of its negative stigma. These days I find myself casually letting people know that I'm poor in order to get more favorable treatment. There are so many highly skilled poor people these days that there is not so much stigma around it. Being poor is basically a natural state for the vast majority of people in their 20s to 40s. My ex-colleagues often discuss how little money they have and how hard they struggle to find jobs. This is a totally normal conversation.

Joeboy 6y ago
It's always been a totally normal conversation, at least where I live (the UK), for the last few decades. I had a colleague who complained that he couldn't reasonably be expected to live on his pitiful salary, which turned out to be £80k (about $120k, adjusted for inflation). Poverty oneupmanship from 1967: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKHFZBUTA4k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKHFZBUTA4k
- 082349872349872 6y ago
  When I was living in the US, I used to enjoy hearing people talk about "being rich." (To understand this circumlocution, the reader must understand that they're all "middle class" over there.) The most egregious instance was when I was talking with someone in a VIP tent, watching her pro jumping her horse over fences in a competition. She'd made some kind of comment about how she was different from the people she had just been talking about, "because they have money." When I asked what she would do if she had money, she replied that she wasn't sure, but maybe she would "get a jet."
  - 10xPerson 6y ago
    >"watching her pro jumping her horse over fences in a competition." I have a hard time understanding this sentence
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