Comment on I'm not asking to be rich.

• yote_zip@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yeah that’s why I wrote that.

  Spending your whole paycheck is very bad at any income level, but it turns out when you’re poor you don’t get a choice.

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  • snooggums@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It is NOT bad though. That is very judgemental.

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    • yote_zip@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It is objectively bad. Spending your whole paycheck means you live month-to-month, and any unexpected expenses can and will sink you and send you into further poverty. It is not financially healthy to live without an emergency fund or investment savings for the future. Just because you do not have enough money to accomplish this doesn’t mean it’s not bad.

      I’m not intending to be “judgmental” while saying this - it’s important to recognize the problems that poverty causes.

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      • snooggums@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        They ARE living paycheck to paycheck, and most likely not by choice.

        Not having enough income to save is a bad situation. The act of spending all of your paycheck so you can eat and survive IS NOT BAD.

        Saying someone that is forced to live paycheck to paycheck that they are making a bad decision by eating is a very dickish thing to do.

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