...are not Poor because they have no money. They are poor because they make bad decisions when they do have money. Tattoos. Vacations. Designer clothing and fancy cars. Lottery tickets. Streaming services and X-Boxes. A 197" rent-to-own TV to watch shows and play X-Box on. Uber Eats. Poor people can piss away more money in a week than I make in a month. I've got some hobos that live near me. They set up camp in a little thicket my dog liked to hunt groundhogs in. It was a nice little camp. They were happy there for a long time. Even with garbage extending out of the woods, in clear view of the nearby apartment complex and road, they were fine. Then, one day, they got an SUV. I mean, not a *working* SUV. But they found an SUV somewhere and managed to tow it to their little camp. Which was kind of a beacon that was impossible for the police to look the other way about. So they got kicked off the land. And the county bulldozed about 40% of the hollow they were camped in. There's still garbage strewn about there. So they move a couple blocks down, under a major road bridge. They were there a couple months before they managed to burn their camp down by knocking over a fire barrel during a cold snap. So they moved back to the next bridge. They had an OK little camp going there, but they kept getting stupid crap--a jewelry cabinet with a missing leg, a country crap rocking horse, assorted mirrors--until the County again took notice and told them they had to move. They gave them 3 weeks notice so, of course, they found a new place to camp, gathered up their valuable items, and moved before the deadline. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!1!!1.... No, I'm kidding. The did not. They continued to collect even more crap at their condemned location and fled with the clothes on their backs and whatever they could quickly pile onto their scooter and wagons before a front-end loader and a dump truck scooped up their tarp and CDs and tools to repair their scooter. I know about these people because of my dog. She likes to scavenge for treats and these people throw out more food every day than I eat in a week, so she comes to gobble up hot dogs and cheeseburgers and whatever else they throw away. One of the things left behind from their latest move was a key part of a fairly nice cot they got their hands on. If you give them something--like a cot--or a sleeping bag or a tent or food, they'll waste it. One day a fairly nice sleeping bag was hanging from a bush. OK. Fair enough. It got wet. Or needs airing out. But it continued to hang there. And hang there. And hang there. Eventually the wind blew it off the bush and it fell in the sand and got rained on and ruined. They had a fairly nice tent. They used it to load with firewood to drag back to their campsite. One day I meet the girl. She asks me to keep an eye on her scooter, which is sitting in the parking lot next to a major road, idling--and is actually her boyfriend's scooter, because hers was stolen right from under her nose the day before because she left it idling in a public place unattended. Give a poor person a million dollars and they'll be broke in 3 months. Sad.
How long do you think about these desperate grabs for attention before you post them? Do you think more people read them than they do a Tererun rant? If so god bless your heart.
Shit, forgot the guy I worked with on my Last Job: 42. Doesn't have a car. Doesn't have a girlfriend. Lives in a rented apartment with roommates (plural). Doesn't have a fricken *winter coat*. Been working an entry level job without gaining any value-add skills like using power equipment for, like, 7 years. Worked Target for, shit, I dunno, about the same amount of time before that. Angry and confused that he has nothing to show for his life. BUT! He has all the latest streaming services. And Uber Eats brought him dinner most nights we worked. And he's up to date on the latest game releases and everything about them. One day he had to go to the doctor, so he was resigned to drop $64 on Uber to get there and back. Shit, you're poor, you learn the bus schedule. You eat beans and rice. Unless you like being poor and want to stay poor forever and never have anything.
Oh fuck you you privileged piece of troll shit! I'm poor, and yes, I spend money on things that could be considered wasteful. Why? Because being poor sucks, and occasionally spending money on something that I don't strictly need is the ONLY source of happiness I have! You know why poor people buy lottery tickets? It's not because they're stupid enough to think they'll win big. That why smug, middle-class pieces of shit who can't see beyond the inside of their own asses like you gamble. Poor people buy lottery tickets because of hope and desperation. Yeah, the odds of winning are astronomically small, but they're not zero. Sometimes, it's worth spending a few dollars just to be able to experience the feeling of hope again for a few seconds. I'm fucking sick of parasites like you thriving by taking advantage of desperate people, and then having the audacity to turn it around on them and be all "it's your own fault, you know. You wouldn't be poor if you weren't useless." Fuck you. Who the fuck is anyone to tell me I need to be useful? How about you be fucking useful? The only person harmed by me being useless is me.
So, 12 minutes before midnight on a friday night and you’re on here raging about poor people. Weird. I’m guessing you’re somewhere between late 40s and early 60s. Single. Childless. You have some income (I’m assuming). So, why the fuck are you on here raging about poor people at midnight on a friday night?
Be useful. Be useless. Either way, the consequences are yours to enjoy and you have no one to blame but yourself.
The landlord thinks he's a little God King that can spit upon the mud smeared plebes? And spouts Republican propaganda on the subject? Huh. Who'da thunkit? What next? Arrogant Geek Squad guys? Cable guys who swear they totally almost beat up their supervisor? Truckers who know a disturbing lot about age of consent laws? Housewares guys who swear they fought skeletons alongside King Arthur?
trying to figure out what the "benefit" of paying somebody's 20 year mortgage of in 10 years is for the tenant and coming up with nothing... of course, when that mortgage is paid off and the tenants get kicked out they get to deal with a market that has inflated by at least double or even triple. necessities of life shouldn't be subject to unrestricted markets. when they are it becomes exploitation, nothing more.
Herbivores are exploited by their need to graze. Beavers are building dams because they are oppressed. The lion is a slave to the gazelle.
Equating conscious human choices based on greed with animal nature. Nothing eugenicist about that. Nothing fascist about being eugenicist. Nah. The historical record is pure as the driven snow on that subject. Mnmm hmm.
The obvious corollary here is that Volpone sees himself as FANTASTICALLY RICH AND SUCCESSFUL. And must make sure that EVERYONE KNOWS IT by shitting on poor people and declaring himself to be BETTER THAN THEM. What a twat.
fair vs free trade. i.e.: paying 25-35% of a full time income on rent vs 70+% y'know... what a market can bear vs what it can be bled dry for.
case in point: I live in a 200ish sq ft bachelor apt in a building that's a little over a century old. current "market value", about $400K. fortunately we have rent control here and I got in when it was worth maybe half of that-8 years ago
no, dipshit. nobody has said there shouldn't be a cost to housing. only that the cost be within reach of median wage earners to allow them a sustainable existence. the alternative of extracting substantially more than that median winds up costing everyone (i.e.: taxpayers like you and me) a lot more.
You know what? I agree with you. I am useless by choice. If I'm going to be useful to someone, I need them to be equally useful to me. Instead, I'm surrounded by people who demand I be as useful as possible while they remain as useless as possible. That's not sustainable.
I don't understand trolls. Trying to piss people off, and then, when people get pissed off, acting like it's an accomplishment? Pissing people off is the easiest thing to do. Know what's not easy? Doing literally anything without pissing anyone off.
Have you ever rented your house? Hope you have some money to repair that shit because what most renters do to your shit cuts into those profits real fast. It is a rental and once people realize they have lost their security they care even less. If they have pets or kids good luck to you. Do you know how fast urine and shit covers your home once crotrch droppings and furbabies are allowed inside. Don't even think no pets allowed helps you because pet owners don't give a fuck. I hope you did not rent any decent appliances. Do you know what renters due to appliances? It isn't that there are not good renters out there, but rather that most renters know their landlord is either a @Volpone so who the fuck cares. Or they just don't care about resale or replacement because it isn't going to them. Been there, done that, did the fucking repairs. I have also been a renter and know the property management and landlord are going to fight you tooth and nail for the security so live in the place. Anyone who thinks renting out to the general public is easy money is the same idiot who bets snake eyes in craps.
Same answer to you. Be as useless as you want. Just don't go crying to anyone else while you're dieing of failure and apathy.
