Comment on Anon lives on a budget

Shortstack@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  “Voluntarily”

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  • Shortstack@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    For many, they get the air quotes

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• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Which seems like a decent plan, untill your house breaks down in the middle of nowhere, or your apartment gets impounded while you’re at work, and then auctioned off after the mail notice they sent to your last physical address was not responded to in time.

  Its basically not legal, anywhere in the US, right now, to live in a car and park it almost anywhere.

  You have to be hypervigilant, to survive this way, and … that just is PTSD, it’ll make you worse at your job, more likely to lose it.

  So we’re basically just making a permanent, sub-proletariat class, thats just gonna get funneled into jail or some kind of concentration camp, probably just turned into some kind of functional, if not formal slave class, whether by debt or criminal conviction or both… within, I dunno, 5 years or less?

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  • Shortstack@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I wish we lived in a society where the common belief was that a rising tide lifts all ships, instead of this pull yourself up by your bootstraps rugged individualism nonsense.

    Funny thing about that one, the original meaning of that bootstrap idiom was to mean basically impossible, and yet it’s used about as unironically as trickle down economics was

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    • burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I don’t think I’ve heard the bootstrap phrase unironically in the past decade. I truly don’t remember even hearing it outside of contexts like this on reddit or similar.

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      • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        it’s mostly a boogeyman.

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    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Ah well, last guy who talked like that got his cranium evacuated by the CIA in broad daylight, so uh…

      … yeah …

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    • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      who is coming to help you? or anyone?

      until then all you can do is help yourself.

      and if you refuse to do that… well you get what you get.

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