Paying for housing

Paying for education

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r*ddit thread

  • Mermadon [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    Stop living outside your means, invest and you'll be fine.

    You literally can not do this when you're on such low income that you need food stamps and other assistance just to pay rent and the electricity bills

    • Madcat [any]
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      4 years ago

      just live on the street, scavenge all your food, and buy GME. what could go wrong?

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I also love when people's solutions are to move to a different state. Yeah, let me simply leave behind all of my friends and family for slightly lower rent. Do these people have zero social connections?

      • ForgotPasswordLol [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        No, they don't, but even beyond that it ignores that moving is expensive, and that the person probably can't afford to just go to a different state on a whim. So using their monetary framework their argument is still dumb as hell.

    • Elon_Musk [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      I never understood how true this was until I 1. started making decent money and 2. had to work 50 hours a week.

      The money helps so much to alleviate the issues caused by working yourself to death.

  • Zodiark
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    4 months ago

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  • Neopergoss [he/him,any]
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    4 years ago

    It's like in It's Always Sunny: "Why is the government not providing us with health insurance?"

    "I mean, what is this, like some kind of socialist country or some kind of communist dictatorship? This is insane, this is un-American. You don't pay for health insurance. That's crazy."

  • fed [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    I mean he isn’t wrong.... USSR = bad dummy, we kinda had 80 years of propaganda saying this

  • AtomPunk [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    That reddit thread, lmao. Galaxy brains looking all around and thinking “yep, this is how it is, everything’s fine.”

  • Mrtryfe [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    Lol @ the commodity fetishism in that thread. We're supposed to be happy because some 75 inch Hisense TV is $500?

    Also someone threw out a misleading graph that was intended to show costs of products and services relative to wages in the past 50 years. The graph shows CPI being lower than wage growth, but this is really just bullshit because the graph uses average hourly earnings instead of median hourly earnings.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      4 years ago

      Lol @ the commodity fetishism in that thread. We’re supposed to be happy because some 75 inch Hisense TV is $500?

      It's funny how we can't make TVs in the states anymore because it's "too expensive". The only people who can make TVs efficiently are the Chinese.

    • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      America won, but America winning the cold war is the same outcome as humanity losing the cold war