thorkidumpster: zoobus: savypsychopath: But…. that’s the point…. you should hav
But…. that’s the point…. you should have saved so you weren’t living paycheck to paycheck….
Hey instead of being mean, I’m going to try to explain this in simple terms
The phrase “living paycheck to paycheck” implies there is no room for savings. You are spending your entire paycheck to survive. All of your expenses are going towards you barely being able to tread water. Any savings made are quickly lost when emergencies inevitably arise. Two back to back financial crisises? That’s your ass. That’s fuck you, you should have saved more, even though you couldn’t have.
Your comment is saying people who are struggling to save deserve that pain because they didn’t save. 800,000 currently furloughed workers with 800,000 different lives are carrying the burden of missing a month’s pay, bills, rent, childcare, food, debts indifferent to that burden - in what way is telling someone barely surviving they should have stopped being poor a meaningful statement? It isn’t.
Please be kinder to others
Also if 80% of people are living paycheck to paycheck, then maybe there’s a larger problem than “lol dumb poor people waste their money buying a $5 coffee because that small reward is sometimes the only thing that gets them through their day”
