#poverty
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“[I]t is actually more expensive to be poor than not poor. If you can’t afford the first month’s rent and security deposit you need in order to rent an apartment, you may get stuck in an overpriced residential motel. If you don’t have a kitchen or even a refrigerator and microwave, you will find yourself falling back on convenience store food, which — in addition to its nutritional deficits — is also alarmingly overpriced. If you need a loan, as most poor people eventually do, you will end up paying an interest rate many times more than what a more affluent borrower would be charged. To be poor — especially with children to support and care for — is a perpetual high-wire act.”
“Poverty charges interest ” holy hell. Ive never read$heard someone put it that way before. But its so friggen true.
what $$$ does is buy TIME. Which poor women know, and rich men barely understand.
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so why the fuck do we shame poor people for giving themselves little luxuries like starbucks and second-hand designer purses but nobody says a damn thing about rich people wasting extravagant amounts of money on gold-plated toilet seats and shit?? if you have so much extra fucking money that you’re spending it on a third sports car you may as well donate it to someone who really needs it. why the FUCK does society try to shame poor people for not wanting to be miserable all the time but turns a blind eye to rich fucks squandering huge amounts of money on useless shit. why.
bottled emotion, the fuel to our spoken word. we throw the hardest working people in the game under the bus to make way for the privileged elite.
i’m sorry my poverty does not make me cool.
i lied, i’m actually not sorry cause I could care less about conformity.
