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A LONG time ago, I was at a (small) company that shared a building with a phone company office. I was amazed at how many people paid their phone bills in cash.
by AlbertCory 4y ago
A LONG time ago, I was at a (small) company that shared a building with a phone company office. I was amazed at how many people paid their phone bills in cash.
- throwawaaarrgh 4y agoYep. Middle class people don't really get all the ways that being poor is a detriment. You often don't have credit, and you may not have a bank account, so you get paid in cash, or at the last minute by check, forcing you to use a check cashing store, which will rape you on unnecessary fees, siphoning any cash you might have saved, keeping you poor.
- mrguyorama 4y agoLook at how much money is made in industries like Check Cashing, debt "recovery", payday loans, and prepay debit cards and you might start to understand what it means when people say "being poor is expensive".