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It's a weird feeling having literally NO MONEY
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Walk up to a homeless person, "Why are you sad? You're rich in life!" Smile and walk away, knowing you helped someone today.
Maybe frame the thread as a funny circumstance instead of positing "This must be how a POOR feels!"
It's simple. You're comparing your minor inconvenience to people's lifetime suffering/being born into a place where you cannot hope to lift yourself out of because of the desperate situation your existence is. You can understand why this might rub people the wrong way.
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User Warned: Inflammatory comparison.
Maybe if you're going to quote me, quote correctly. I said "GUESS this is how poor people feel consistently"
I never said "MUST". You can't even read my post properly, for someone being so hostile
Also, for those that can't comprehend the sentence:
Notice how I said 'CONSISTENTLY", this suggests that I'm imaging a scenario in which I forget my wallet all the time, which means I'm hungry ALL THE TIME. Is that not what poor people experience?
probably because you stupidly compared yourself to poor people
the fuck kinda dumbdick thread is this
Guess this is what Devin Nunes and Jim Jordan feels consistently.
Nope. You know you'll be able to pay your bills for instance. You have a car for instance. You know this will work out in a couple of days. This has a massive effect on emotions. You feel stressed in the short term but you don't for instance feel despair because you know you will shortly regain access to your money.
This post is extremely antagonistic in reply to someone calling you out for your ignorance due to your priveledge. Admit your ignorant uniformed guess was incorrect. Don't double down. And you know well that the use of "guess" in that context doesn't imply the primary dictionary defenition.
wow.. been there OP but i have my wallet at the time.. i just simply don't have any money and that feeling sucks especially when i have my wallet with me. i didnt have my phone at the time though because i just couldnt afford to have one.. but if i had my phone i would just use my phone to purchase food online...
You don't know this forum very well if you thought you could post a light hearted topic like this without being dogpiled.
Anyway if I were you I'd set up Google/Samsung/Apple pay on your phone in case it happens again, literally happened to me for the first time last week and I used my phone for the train and for lunch.
Lol I was about to say I dont have a credit card or a student loan so I'm sweet. But then remembered the fact that I "own" a house, so I owe the bank a loooot of money
People make light-hearted threads all the time. "LOL I'M LIKE THE POORS" deserves scrutiny.
That's not how I interpreted it and the OP has said as much in subsequent posts. Seemed like a casual observation of how when suddenly you don't have access to something you usually consider trivial, it makes you think that there are people who literally don't have access to that ever. I don't know why people are assuming ill intent in OPs words.
The fact that you can't even admit that maybe you might have made a joke that didn't really land is astounding. Instead of going "sure I guess I can see how people might be taken aback by my phrasing" you decide to double down.
Whew. I'm always amazed at some people's total lack of self awareness.
Yes, poor people constantly have to deal with the minor anxiety of temporarily being distanced from all their disposable income and this thread was totally a good idea.
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I will admit that my post was ignorant, as long as you guys admit that the hostility and pile on tactics of this forum is an issue. Not a lot of people like to be hounded by dozens of posters, the natural reaction being to double down.
I can be better. You can be better.
No one is assuming ill intent from the original post. Rather the use of that sentence shows that the OP was very ignorant (though not malicious and so having no ill intent) about what it is like to be poor. People are calling that ignorance out. If OP admitted they were wrong that would be the end of it but they didn't and instead made a defensive and antagonistic post instead.
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See my earlier post. My post was ignorant and not malicious.
You guys piled on and brought the hostility into this thread
Yes I reacted to hostility with hostility. That's usually the natural reaction.
are you really trying to "both sides" this
EDIT: wow apparently they are lmao
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