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Not for nothing, but what you're saying is both classist and doesn't take into account the reality of friendships and roots that can take hold in a place after
by necrotic_comp 5y ago
Not for nothing, but what you're saying is both classist and doesn't take into account the reality of friendships and roots that can take hold in a place after you've settled in.
Things may be expensive, and you may feel trapped on the hedonic treadmill, but moving to a new city or a lower COL area may not be a realistic option for many people.
- zwkrt 5y agoClassist against who? Land owners? Color me unmoved.
- necrotic_comp 5y ago"Poor people have kids all the time, a lot of times they are even smart!" is extraordinarily classist. It makes a joke that based on the assumption that the majority of the time poor people are stupid. Not a good look to say something like that.
- munificent 5y agoI think there is a charitable interpretation of that sentence where they were being tongue-in-cheek with the understanding that readers would all agree that obviously being born to a poor family does not determine your intelligence.
- phone8675309 5y agoThe rest of the post seemed to indicate they didn't deserve the benefit of the doubt there.