GreyShack

@GreyShack@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who dont particularly care for or celebrate Christmas, Whats your favorite Christmas song?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Jona Lewie - Stop The Cavalry. Apparently not originally intended as a Christmas song anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's going on with the downvote button?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You say that you found out that lemmy.world had disabled downvotes. Where did you you find that out? I’d certainly seen nothing myself here - I know that some instances have - and can certainly see and use the downvote arrows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's going on with the downvote button?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m on lemmy.world. This thread is on lemmy.world I have just downvoted you successfully as far as I can see.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't more poor people join mutual aid groups instead of using charities?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The issue with being poor is that you don’t get to save a lot - if any - whilst you are paying for rent and the basics. That is a large part of the reason that the housing co-op that I mentioned has housed so few after so long.

  Yes, in the right conditions it will work, but there are a lot of situations that don’t leave people with access to those conditions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't more poor people join mutual aid groups instead of using charities?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  My initial thoughts would be that the priority for most poor people is housing, followed by food and keeping the lights on.

  My experience of mutual aid groups is primarily in the form of local exchange trading schemes (LETS), which typically provide services such as cake making, aromatherapy sessions, bicycle repair and maybe garden maintenance etc.

  So although you may be able to deal with the food side of things through that to some extent, there really aren’t many landlords who will take rent in the form of aromatherapy and almost no utility suppliers will accept payment in bicycle repairs.

  I have known a group to establish a housing co-op, which is great and all, but that, after around a decade, has housed around 8 people in total, which leaves a very long way to go.

  Overall, I am in favour of the idea, but it is easy to see the issues that leave most people stuck in some job that actually pays the rent.