downundercel explains how he can't remember the last time he ate 3 meals. I cannot comprehend this level of poverty in a supposed first world country

Recently I bought a packet of mints ($1.50) and ate only that for days straight.

"I have $1.50. Should I buy a loaf of bread and some milk? No I will buy a packet of mints"

Because it's treated like it's something wrong with the individual, rather than the system.

It absolutely is something wrong with the individual. Australia, like all 1st world countries, has a welfare system that makes it impossible to starve unless you're fricking it up yourself. As in, if you spend all your money plus the welfare money on drugs and have nothing left to eat. That guy's gonna be leaving a lot of details out of his story.

I'm Australian (unfortunately).

24 days ago, based on his posts, OP says he lives in Adelaide - fourth/fifth biggest city in the country, population 1,000,000+, capitol city of its state. There is simply no way that OP Is not able to make contacts in a capitol city with a charity, NGO, food service, poverty service, or even a generous stranger on a local community page once a week to get a free grocery shop. There is simply NO way - even when I lived in small regional cities, there were ways to get a week's worth (for one person) of basic but plentiful groceries if you're willing to reach out to the right places. There is context missing here, or OP absolutely refuses to make any effort beyond calling the Salvation Army. Literally no one who is able to afford housing (OP says he pays rent in another post) is going to to starve to death in Australia unless they're making some choice not to seek food. There is such an embedded welfare state in this country, and food is so plentiful that charities find it exceptionally easy to gather enough to feed anyone who claims it. (There's also at least two of those hare Krishna restaurants in Adelaide which gives you free/very cheap hearty vegan meals, no questions asked).

My suburban GP in a small city hands out loaves of bread for free to patients who claim bulk billing, which OP appears to (as an example). He is simply too stupid, too lazy, too fat, or otherwise is so incredibly unlikeable that everyone around him wants him to starve.

This is bullshit to feed the doomer narrative. And the thing is, there ARE things that are impossible to purchase if you're poor here - food is never it.

Stuff like this always fascinates me because all those kangaroo frickers are acknowledging this as true and being the reality of how poor people there are treated, but I know those frickers will still act like Australia is somehow actually way better to the poor than us.

Like even in my small town in the South we have enough support systems that only the absolutely most insane and methed out of our homeless can’t find food and shelter for the day.

How do they not realize that either these stories are absolute fiction or that their sense of superiority is completely unwarranted?

Since when is Australia first world?

has he considered working a day in his pathetic life and using this money to buy food

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• archive.org

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• archive.ph (click to archive)

With a loaf of bread and a jar of vegemite u could make a gruel

Why is he eating 3 when he could just eat 1? !vegana

i can't either but that's because i'm neurodivergent about fasting

In America you just ask for a box of food and they just give it to you

I can’t remember the last time I ate 3 meals a day because I’m not an obese r-slur

https://old.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/12xkq34/becoming_homeless_this_week_wish_there_was_more/

I skimmed her post history, sounds like she was a professional leech who didn't bother planning for her future at any point in the last 30 years