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Thirdie 
asks the spoiled 
middle 
class 
brats of reddit why they want to leave the 
developed world .
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I see the poors are pretending to be big wallet niggas again est. 2016
Hello, welcome to 'I see the poors are pretending to be big wallet gangstas again'
This hole exists as a safe space for refugees from the Facebook(MetaTM groups of the same name. Of which there have been several iterations. We mostly exist to poke fun at the state of living in poverty. While it oftentimes is unavoidable, we do aspire to not be meanspirited. Over the years we have co-opted the term 'Peak Poor' to being someone who exudes poverty, regardless of their actual net worth. Trump and Elon both exhibit the peak poor ethos from time to time while still being the top 0.000001%. You can do something peak poor and still be a good person or a generally adjusted one. We all have a bit of poor in us.
We basically fill a niche similar to fatpeoplehate with a bit less actual malice.
PeakPoor is shotgunning mountain dews at 5 years old.
PeakPoor is not people dying of poverty. While technically the greatest heights of poverty is succumbing to it this is not funny, and is a failure
of capitalism. We do not make fun of poverty to be mean spirited such as that.
Read the room, if it's punching down too hard or really digging into someone whos a sympathetic character it doesn't belong here. (basically READ THE ROOM)
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Subscribe to this hole, it's important that we get our numbers up. Love numbers = peak poor
Bonus points for making your post title some variation of peak poor. (Pinnacle of Poverty, Prowess of the Penniless)
I am looking for a mod who will help me grow this place and encourage the facebook community where the majoryity of our members reside
to migrate. Contact me if interested.
I really do love you all so very much, i'm even spending drama coin to get some banners and marseys. thanks for being a part of the community.
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Meh, wealth is overrated.
Everyone ogles me and immediately pegs me as wealthy but it just makes genuine human connection harder to come by. There's a blind beggar who frequents the Sunday Masses in town and he's my favorite indigent local because I know his cup extends to me with no judgment or greed, only genuine need.
Women are also very rude to my wife when she's with me out in public in an obvious display of jealousy while I avoid going out in Manila alone to avoid the offers and temptation.
Maybe this would be different in LatAm/SA but I kinda doubt it.
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Lmao. I don't think you'll ever hear a poor person saying that. Much less someone who came from poverty but is now middle-class or rich.
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My family has almost all been in medicine for a few generations living in the NE corner of the US and similarly drive around in beat up Nissans/Kias to avoid public attention... and we are by no means "rich" on the level of the truly wealthy. Just look at the Musk children or whatever for a high-profile example of this principle acted out in practice. Family and friends > wealth once you get past poverty.
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maybe I'm r-slurred but I don't get your point
yeah that's your wife's story, she was poor as dirt, but that's not your story
does she share the feeling of "wealth is overrated"?
you even said you come from a family of doctors in the US
just what is going on here
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Yes I'm saying that she agrees with me that the (perception of, at least) wealth beyond basic comfort is more of a burden than a blessing speaking as an actual expat. Maybe narcissists or normies would feel differently? I grew up in religious schools surrounded by that crowd and they're all cut from the same cloth in terms of being upper-middle/lower-upper in the USA but maintaining a fairly austere lifestyle beyond the occasional vacation.
I'm not being coy or whatever, it's genuinely obnoxious to get a ton of attention and that was the thread between the two thoughts. My nuclear (
@nuclearshill 
) family is one of the poorer sections of the clan tbh.
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How could it be a burden if no-one knows you have it?
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Neighbor I'm a 6'5 white guy living in a poor Asian country (average height 5'0 for women 5'2 for men) and plane tickets are 1k+ USD a pop to even get over here. Beggers/vendors/scammers/pimps approach me all the time. I don't walk around flashing cash or something.
Also why'd you guys sidevote me but upmarsey each other
@nuclearshill 
@Horned_waifus_shill
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Sometimes I accidentally skip and
@Horned_waifus_shill is a sidevotecel
Holy shit lmao
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It's a bit taller than that in Manila probably, especially in BGC/Makati (rich parts of the metro) where nutrition isn't an issue for kids but yeah people here are really short. I have a good pic someone took of me in the middle of the crowd during the Good Friday procession this year but I don't feel like scrolling through my gallery and cropping my face right now.
I can literally not fit in visually, there's no avoiding it. I wear a Casio and while my clothes are more expensive than what most locals wear it's just average middle class white guy stuff in America (rugby shirts/button downs and jeans if we're indoors).
@lain go to Mexico or something sometime and it's pretty similar, a tall gringo is a magnet.
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The frick would you marry a flip for as a rich tall white man. Neighbors stay lying
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Any American is rich by Filipino standards of living which is the whole point of the OP I was responding to about being an expat, the average combined household income is ~$500 a month (probably more like $750 in Manila). I never said I'm rich in America. Though you should check the data, Fil-Ams and Asian women now outearn white guys in America (average 80k+). !Pinoypride
I've posted pics showing I'm 6'5 though,
@Redactor0 and 
@nuclearshill can confirm. Cope and seethe, I picked my wife because we have the same religious values and fell in love. 
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Oh I didn't realize you were an expat, that's very based.
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I met my wife in the US and we moved here the other year to be near her mom/family after her dad passed away.
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!slots321
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not beating the yellow fever allegations
that said kino line about the blind beggar
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Holy shit you're a Filipinx, that explains so much lmao.
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He's not, he's a white American who married a Philipino woman. I thought he was a based philipino-spanish mestizo
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Holy shit that's even better/worse.
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He confuses me too.
He takes weird pride in the actions of imperial Spain and Catholicism even though he seems to be of Anglo WASP descent. It would be more understandable if still hilarious if he was Filipino and trying to find some link to Europe like a true thirdie nationalist
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Yeah, that made me believe he was a Philipino/Spanish mestizo as he referred to Philip II and the Spanish Empire as "us"
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Weird Catholic unity stuff maybe?
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