I’ll start: you live in a rich country and your BMI is > 30
Ok.
I am poor.
Well played
Recipe for spaghetti:
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Spaghetti
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Hot dogs
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Ketchup
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I pay zero income tax, and I’m not Jeff Bezos.
Back in 1960, the US minimum wage was $1.00/hour and the average house was $11,000.00
In those days, pretty much any union job would support a family of four with a decent house and money to send the kids to college.
By those standards, today’s ‘middle class’ is poverty stricken.
“Everyone is poor” sounds more like “tell me you’re not poor without telling me your income”.
Not to be, like, a dick about it, though. I’m glad if you’re doing (relatively) alright, and hope you’ll use that for good.
When I really want to treat myself I get fast food.
I mean, here in Canada, shit is insane. The fact that it’s like $20 for a burger and fries at a drink at A&W is off the wall. Also now I really want A&W.
Subway is probably my favourite. A veggie footlong is 10 CAD or so. Adding a nice desert, I manage to feed a couple people there for $25 with coupons.
Lunch deals at certain hole-in-the-wall places are on a similar tier. Eating out can get twice or even four times as expensive as that if you’re not paying attention - which I know from dining with people who aren’t poor.
I have cancer and medications are $18k a month without insurance. They are covered under Medicaid, but I have to be underneath Medicaid income limits to continue to get Medicaid, which by definition means I need to stay in poverty to have the cost of these meds actually covered.
ICE arrested me.
I bike to work because I’m not prepared to pay bus fare every day.
I can’t afford next month’s rent because I don’t have a roommate. And I don’t have a roommate because she decided to use me nonstop for months. And I can’t find another roommate because this place sucks. And I hate my life and I want to die and I want to drink.
I and my niece (50 and 13) live with my 85 year old dad because housing costs are fucked up here.
Back when my father was alive, he taught me that you can buy packs of seeds to grow your own food with food stamps. Seed packs were 50 cents each back then, dunno about now but I’m sure they’re still cheap.
You can stretch the ketchup at the end if you add a bit of water.
Same with shampoo and various other products. 👍
I will work until I’m dead because I can’t afford to retire
That could just mean you were born this century
Fair point.
I’m over 50
I watched Christopher Nolan movies on my phone’s 720p LCD display.
I’m rich in things that have no price.
Ah, a fellow dumpster diver then? A man of class I see 👍
Well, not quite. I was more thinking of love, compassion, a loving family, a job I like… that sort of things 🙂
Random update…
You wanna know what someone threw away today?
Out at our city park, someone threw away an emergency scissor jack for their car, perfectly functional no less.
Like, why do people throw perfectly good things away like that?
Yes, I added it to our vehicle trunk, along with our already two scissor jacks, now three.
Why are people that wasteful???
Ah, even better, congrats 👍
Still never hurts to keep a casual eye out on dumpsters though, people sometimes be throwing away perfectly good, even damn near brand new stuff.
Man we live in a wasteful society ☹️
