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> Maybe you should not live somewhere so expensive and stop spending money on unnecessary things. Because The Poors waste their money? > You can switch to eat
by comeonseriously 5y ago
> Maybe you should not live somewhere so expensive and stop spending money on unnecessary things.
Because The Poors waste their money?
> You can switch to eating cheap food and minimize your expenses.
So, The Poors shouldn't care about nutrition?
> If you are just making ends meet you are not financially responsible.
This is so naive.
- charcircuit 5y ago>Because The Poors waste their money? Either that or they are not using their time well for making money. >So, The Poors shouldn't care about nutrition? cheap and nutritious don't have to be mutually exclusive >This is so naive. It means you are living a life you can't afford.
- KaiserPro 5y ago> not using their time well for making money. you've not worked in retail have you?
- charcircuit 5y agoI have never worked in retail. I have only made money from programming.
- ashtonkem 5y agoAnd it shows.
- germinalphrase 5y agoConsider this discussion as an exercise in humility, that the mental model of poverty as a result of poor choice may be flawed.
- charcircuit 5y agoI choose to hone a skill by teaching myself programming and I monetized it at an early age. Anyone can do what I did. I'm not special.
- the-smug-one 5y agoYou are very special. Do you meet a lot of different people? Like, different countries, adults with parents from other socioeconomic backgrounds, people with chronic diseases, all of that stuff? Because, to me, it really seems like you don't.
- charcircuit 5y agoYes, I'm in a lot of discord servers. I have talked to people from many countries. I have even talked to others using their native language. I'm sure that I've encountered people from different socioeconomic backgrounds and people with chronic diseases.
- tiagod 5y agoAnd you think discord users are a good sample of the population? It's absolutely not true that not everyone could just pick a skill like programming and work on it until they're employable, especially as many people need to start working as soon as possible to be able to survive. If you had to work 50h/week plus 3-4h commute every day, how would you study programming exactly? If you didn't have access to a computer, how would you do it? If everyone around you made it seem like it's an activity out of your reach, how would you figure out it's not?
- csunbird 5y agoI really can not follow the logic of this thread here, especially the last sentence. When the choice is between "living a life you can't afford" and "not living at all as they do not have any money to pay rent", I think it is clear that people should try to live.
- charcircuit 5y agoI used life in the same meaning as "start a new life" it's metaphorical. Sometimes you just need to reset everything.
- Auracle 5y agoThe thing that isn’t talked about is that a significant portion of the population simply isn’t intelligent enough for a decent paying job. Men of that type can usually go in to a field where they trade their long term health for more pay, but women that’s harder. Either way there’s a good chance you’ll be on disability by the time you’re 50. I agree that a lot of people make really poor financial decisions, but don’t think everyone has the same earning potential as you.
- dang 5y agoPlease do not respond to flamebait with another flamewar comment. That makes everything worse, and is against the site guidelines in its own right. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html