[ SECRET POST #2725 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2725 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Poverty and "luxury items" - a discussion

[nyxelestia]

Given how most of those "If I were poor I'd do THIS" types whine if they so much as have to live without Internet for a few days for local repairs, I wonder how they think they'd go months or years without any kind of entertainment or connection to the digital world at all. They seem to see "being poor" as some kind of ~condition~ and not a state of life that can go on for months or years with no end in sight, that it's something people can't just "whether through" but have to actually live through.

What's especially hilarious is that some of the people who I've heard this attitude from are people in one form of debt or another. If you really believe people shouldn't have nice things until they are stable, then why the hell are you spending that money on getting a new phone instead of putting it to pay off your credit card debt, or your college loan? >.

Re: Poverty and "luxury items" - a discussion

[nyxelestia]

And of course, if you get assaulted because you were walking to or from your job late at night, then clearly it's your own damn fault for being out so late. >.<

Re: Poverty and "luxury items" - a discussion

[darkmanifest]

I remember when I used to rely on the library for my internet access...all those job applications that take half an hour or more to finish when you get a maximum of forty-five minutes a day of access. It was exciting and marvelous.

Re: Poverty and "luxury items" - a discussion

[kallanda_lee]

I can tell you for a fact jobhunting would be way harder without a car.

Re: Poverty and "luxury items" - a discussion

[kallanda_lee]

Yeah, but it's....just not true. I did a temp job for six months that was literally not reachable by public transport unless you were willing to walk 8 km to and 8 km back every day from the nearest bus stop.

That is the most extreme case, but there were other places where it was sort of semi possible, but would have added more than 2 hours travel time daily. Being able to look for jobs in a larger radius gives you more opportunities (and makes you more likely to actually take a job, because to some people tat extra travel time is just not possible with kids going to school etc).

It's easy to hate the unemployed. I know I had a lot of prejudices before it happened to me.

Re: Poverty and "luxury items" - a discussion

[ansela_jonla]

I live just about on the edge of the Peak District in England. The amount of jobs the jobcentre tells me to apply for that are up in the Peak District, and either inaccessible by public transport or only accessible with an extremely expensive bus trip, that are apparently "suitable" for me solely on the basis of being in th same county.

I can't drive. I will never be able to drive (and that's a can't, not a won't). A two-hour-a-day job that costs me £14+ to get to is not viable in any way whatsoever.

Re: Poverty and "luxury items" - a discussion

[ill_omened]

Off topic.

You're peak district?

I know a few people from Mac and am always down their every couple months.

Small world.