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On a camping forum I once in a while frequent, a couple were complaining about a slightly newer camper they bought that's literally falling apart because of manufacturer's defects. People were attacking them for essentially being poor and not being able to make the fixes themselves. It was insane. This seemingly nice, older couple spent what little they had on what is one of the cheaper ways to travel and get around - and the entitled community was just shitting on them. Pretty much just pounced.
Americans love to punish the victims of capitalism. It's fucking nuts.
and coming to terms with the fact that all your pleasures are made from the heart of an orphan child.
Yeah, I think this is the main thing that motivates the just world fallacy
Outdoor enthusiast groups seem to be some of the worst for this these days. I'm guessing because the gear is expensive and fashionable now, as well as a lot of white collar tech people flocking to it as an aspirational lifestyle thing.
I love camping and backpacking, I hate the elitist trust fund granola types so much. Backpacking/hiking gear is getting fashionable, so I can only afford used/REI garage sale gear, I hate it so much
I hate it, but thankfully a lot of the expensive outdoor gear is not really needed and is basically branding/snake oil/ultralight stuff that the majority of hikers don't need. I'll keep backpacking for dirt cheap with my surplus DDR rucksack thank you very much!
Nothing makes me feel poorer than when something is wrong with my muffler and I have the loudest car on the road
Always made me feel weird when r*dditors would talk about people making less than $60k as subhuman or deserving of suffering. Going into local city subreddits is the worst. Just endless posts of people looking for apartments with a $2-$3k a month budget in a city where the average wage is $10hr unless you know the right people, and cheering on the encroaching gentrification and homogenity of the city.
Did you ever see the documentary about gameing in cuba? Someone was running a vanilla wow instance on an old emachine under his bed. Then they did a counterstrike lan party.
Truely the promised land.
https://youtu.be/lEplzHraw3c
It is the former giant bomb 💣 video person from the meme.
lol I hadn't realized that clothmap was the guy from the blinking meme until like a week ago and I subbed to his channel like 2 years ago.
Join the club, always shocks me when I read comments acting like poverty isn't something that happens in the US nor is discrimination and feel good fluff laws with a 100k upvotes won't change that. I deleted my reddit accounts a while ago, my blocked user list was massive.
With a big enough antenna many can probably get 'free' internet off the library, hospital, or McDonald's. Really crappy and prone to drops, used to do gaming (mostly pvp stuff at the time) off a Denny's that had wifi that was by my house when I lived in the city.
I make up for having an old pc by playing old games, you couldn't play all the games between 90-10 in an entire lifetime. Then there's games just made for old pcs like roguelikes. Online I'm limited to private servers being poor, on an old rig and had a bad experience with a server was so toxic I dread online games now lol.
shocks me when I read comments acting like poverty isn’t something that happens in the US
Capitalism is so effective at atomizing us that it's very possible to genuinely believe poverty is extremely rare in the US if the bubble you live in is also financially secure. And a lot of Americans live in these little bubbles where most of the people are reasonably secure. It's a huge obstacle for raising class consciousness.
If only all redditors gilded like that instead of pay that horrible cesspit.
https://hexbear.net/static/emojis/gold-communist.png
Just start doing that directly in the comments.
God I know. I'm subscribed to a couple personal finance subreddits and the amount of posts that are like "I'm 22 and my take home is 20k a month, can I afford this $1.5m house as my third investment property??" is just unreal.
lol this was 10000% why they went the route of reddit gold and awards and shit.
"I just inherited an epic six-figure sum, yeah THAT happened. Halp?"
Lifelong working poverty gang, my mom worked at a call centre and my grandfather worked in a box factory, I've worked almost exclusively minimum wage outside of grad school and have never had a living wage :stalin-smokin:
I have, but then again I moved out of the country to get it. Was making the minimum, but livable wage. Went back to grad school and graduated into a dumpster fire so currently unemployed.
don't go to grad school, you'll end up like us, folks :angery:
"excuse me why are you poor? I mean, you are here, you can't use the internet while poor"
Poor gang checking in :sadness:
I'd be down for a poor gang comm, something like r/povertyfinance or r/frugal.
I feel this. I’ve gotten shit for trying to get PDFs of obscure Shogi (japanese chess) materials. Like dude, i cant fucking pay rent rn i cant drop a 50 on a book. Its hard to keep up with any kind of hobby when you’re consistently paywalled out of improving.
Yeah I’ve seen it happen in a few communities. My experience has always been someone trying to get a PDF/audio file of something and instant replies are “just buy it” like gee thanks i never wouldve thought of that and if you dare say something like “uhhh I’m broke” then the ant farm craniums will start going on and on about how the author/whoever is broke too because youre not buying their book/ etc 🙃🙃🙃
I have no idea I would think it would affect it a little bit but not leaving big name creators destitute like some brain olympians believe
Majority of the games I bought back in the day were cause of fond memories playing it after piracy.
It's like a demo the company didn't have to pay to make
nerds with fuck you money decide on who the “real fan” is
This is such a dumb metric too because when you're poor it takes so much more dedication to get into a hobby
When piracy becomes a taboo an internet community has become too large
psssst Does anyone want a link for a torrent of Soul with subtitles in several languages?
Crazy idea: force all tech companies to stop pushing new products for about a year, and in that time, release monthly updates to their current software that reduces the memory and hard drive usage. Every computer in the world suddenly gets better and more useful than it was before, productivity goes up, badda bing badda boom.
It's a structural problem.
The more you widen your highways, the worse your traffic problem gets.
https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/10/can-the-internet-run-on-renewable-energy.html
Oh yeah I looked for answers on my manager sending me a text mistakenly saying they were gonna fire us all and they said she was fine to say that. Like no shit but like thats not what I'm here for.
