Being poor is expensive

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• Gentryfried@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Start a homestead in the wilderness, every moment spent goes towards your goals

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  • DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    A working horse; one who is trained to pull a plow, costs a minimum of $3,000.00 in the USA today. Also, there’s no such thing as ‘wilderness.’ There’s plenty of uncultivated land, but it’s all owned by the government or private interests who would be averse to you showing up and planting crops.

    I suggest you go to the local library and get access to the interwebs, so you can check the facts before you start making silly suggestions.

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    • floofloof@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Just get a small loan of a few million from your parents. Honestly, why don’t more of the poor think of this?

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    • Dookieman12@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Facts and nuance don’t mean anything when you’re an angry little teenaged shit on the internet.

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  • Doom@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So destroy more forest to grow food for one person? May I suggest an alternative. We protect the little forest that remains and instead relax zoning laws to allow people to grow food on the countless acres of grassy yard space/land we already have. Grass is an outdated non native crop originally grown by rich assholes as a staus symbol to say “I have so much I do not need to use my land for anything productive.”

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    • RoquetteQueen@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You don’t have to tear down a forest to grow food. There are far more options out there for growing food than conventional modern farming.

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    • Gentryfried@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Slave mindset

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  • NaibofTabr@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If you believe it’s that simple, you should look into it.

    The biggest problems are water access and soil quality. Generally speaking, all of the land that is good for farming is not wilderness, it’s aldeady owned and in use by somebody. If you have to spend money to irrigate and more money to make the soil into something that can grow food, you’ll be broke long before you’re self-sustaining.

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    • lyrial@anarchist.nexus ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And, spoiler alert; even if you manage to get kand with water access, you are going to go through hell to get the rights to use that water in any meaningful way. Try something as simple as rain water collection with mout the rights? Best case is a massive fine.

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• Zephyr@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Literally why wealthy people pay exorbitant amounts of money to save time. It’s one thing they can’t buy back once it’s spent.

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• Sunflier@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  For the laundry stuff, this is a cheap solution for your day to day stuff: a washer spinner that you hang-dry your clothes. Doesn’t help much with heavy stuff like bed sheets, but it’ll do for day-to-day stuff.

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• AngryRedHerring@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  And the mecical bills one accrues for treatment of the ailments that are brought on by an immune system weakened by constant stress.

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• FiniteBanjo@feddit.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I usually choose the bus over my own vehicle regardless, and Laundromats are generally too expensive unless you’ve got greasers or can pay to have your laundry done for you.

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  • DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    greasers ?

    I’ve seen that term used for some White youth and also Mexicans.

    What does it mean here?

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    • FiniteBanjo@feddit.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Greasers in reference to laundry are a colloquial term for rags and clothes covered in Grease such as Petrol, Motor Oil, etc.

      You have to take them to a Laundromat that allows them because they will damage or cause residential washers and dryers to stick or smell.

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  • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I do too, but keep in mind we’re outliers for whom the economic cost of taking the bus is negative. There’s a thousand other little luxuries we enjoy without even noticing all of them.

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• Artisian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Do we have data on how much free time and external costs the poor have been burdened with over time?

  I could see it going either way (and this is presumably monstrously tricky to account fairly). My lived experience is that many folks have things they’d prefer to do than organizing (I’m looking at phones and social media), over and above the impositions on their lives. But I’d like to know that I’m wrong.

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• Formfiller@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s by design

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• AlboTheGuy@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Time is money to money is time

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• Sparky@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Better living is brought about by better technology, not having more money

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  • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    are phones and social media making the world better? is ai?

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    • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah all these machines were supposed to have us working ten hours a week by now for a living wage what’s that about?!

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• remon@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_-1l_SlA7c

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