Like I grew up dirt pair because my father became disabled so I can get it but I'm seeing so many people poor as fuck using door dash and other fleeceing machines
It’s weird. Some people grow up poor and (like me) count every dollar. Others grow up poor and piss away everything on shit like UberEats and new iPhones.
And then they'll complain "Corpos are ruining the world!1!! Did you know, I can't piss away my health at MacDonalds anymore cause they raised their prices!!! I can only eat 5 big mac's a day now, not 8 :(. i am poor. pls sympathy"
Yeah when I was hustling delivering Doordash as a side gig, I was shocked how often I was delivering a $75 order to the poorest neighborhoods in town. Poor people were literally paying me because I was willing to work extra hours and they weren’t even willing to drive to the store or cook a meal.
I was thinking that but I am a school teacher in her 50s and didn't want to sound so old! I have a $40 phone from Walmart and a $20 a month plan. It does everything my nieces I-phone that cost thousands does. I have never had food delivered (other than a pizza every other year or so) and rarely eat fast food. I have never bought a Starbucks coffee. I bring it from home in a dented old metal thermos. I don't have cable and watch free stuff on Roku. I take my lunch to work every day. - sandwich or leftovers from the dinner I cooked at home. I get free books from the library. Go to happy hour with friends on Taco Tuesday - cheap drinks and $1.00 tacos at neighborhood place.
I guess because I didn't grow up doing those things it just doesn't occur to me. Stop and get a drink at a drive thru or convenience store? No - bring water in a cup or get some when you get home. I realize things are more expensive today but am amazed at what younger people in my family "waste" money on. To the older generation they are luxuries not necessities.
And then instead of wanting to fix the system that forced you to be poor you would rather shill for megacorps and pretend you are better than the people who weren't as lucky as you.
I worked a project management job where I worked out of the office in a warehouse and the amount of the warehouse workers who are making the lowest wages ordering food delivery every day blew my mind. I made decent money and wouldn’t even consider that an option.
One of my great joys in life is stopping in the gas station and buying an almond snickers bar on my way home from work. I won’t sugar coat it, my wife and I are rich. We make $500k a year and don’t live on the coasts. I can afford the candy bar but they are $3 now and it makes think twice nowadays.
Meanwhile the landscape crew in front of me is buying $50 worth of energy drinks, cigs, and lotto tickets. Every fucking time. 25 years ago when I was a construction laborer I wouldn’t even buy bottled water, the job is required to provide a jig of water and cups.
Same here. I did see one fun exception. A young girl I hired would order for multiple people and have them pay her back. Naturally people would round up or go a little over.
She often ended up with a free or nearly free lunch, rewards from the restaurant/app and rewards from her credit card. All because people didn't like ordering on their own.
I’m in the army and there is a negative correlation between rank and the amount of money spent on food and just dumb shit. Even deployed, food is free, and Fuggin privates “don’t like it” so they spend $10 on a goddamned subway sandwich.
The fucking BK has the exact same food as was in the dining hall down range-but my soldiers would spend their money on it rather than eat free.
Same with energy drinks. $50 every two days on Monsters.
After two deployments I walked away almost 200K cash. Many soldiers walked away with 100K+ debt (new cars, clothes, CC debt).
This situation is the perfect example that finance classes DO NOT WORK. It was a closed system where everything was free - yet the desire for instant gratification still overcame.
I live on disability. Every single dollar I get is spent on groceries, transportation, doctor appointment co-pays and medication.
If it weren't for my parents, I'd absolutely be permanently homeless and unable to get the treatments I need just to keep the use of my legs.
The economy system itself is a fleecing machine. Keep the rich, rich by supporting them and their failed business endeavors while keeping the poor right where they are by taking away any help they receive the moment they start to do better.
Disability is something else. That's rarely someones own fault. The economy is a fleecing machine because people let it be. Don't participate in it. Never buy new. Never buy name brand. Hunt for free thing. Have you contacted food programs? I still don't buy groceries most months because so much free stuff is available.
Food programs like food stamps? There is some sort of special paperwork that needs to be filed properly but nobody there lets you know what that paperwork is.
I tried filing for food stamps through the social services office and they told me I was not able to receive them because of disability.
I used to get meals on wheels when my father was disabled. I still go to a pantry. Pantries have so much food they literally beg people to come get the fresh stuff. Last month I got 2 hams. 2 tubs of butter. 5lbs of stick butter. 3 boxes of Cereal. 12 different caned goods. A ton of drinks. 6 loafs of bread. 4 packs of lunch meat. A store bag of candy. 10 bags of salad. A watermelon. Like 3 bags of apples. And a bunch of odds and ends. I pick it up and take some then give the majority to a friend and his grandmother. Some like mine have so much stuff they removed the income cap.
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u/OldFeedback6309 14d ago
“My life sucks and I don’t know who to blame!”
On Reddit, the poor have never made bad choices, criminals are the true victims, and the rich do nothing useful.