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Why you need to let poor people buy coffee in peace : povertyfinance

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Two year old words posting saying that it's problematic to tell the Pours to stop enjoying things and Starbucks/Netflix/weekly funko pops are necessities.

Comments are a mix of people with brains that agree budgeting matters when you're broke and brainlets overdoing on copium for their bad decisions

Edit: Yikes. Where do I begin?

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90% of poor people are poor because theyre stupid and iimpulsive.

10% are genuinely very unlucky and keep getting kicked when theyre down.

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Noooooo, poor people are poor because when a rich guy buys shoes for 500$ they last him for a lifetime by just maintaining them with 25$ shoeshine and when poors buy 50$ shoes they have to replace them every 2 years or more!! I saw a comic about it!

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Honestly, quality in apparel, footwear, and most goods peak at a point. Most people don’t seem to realize that point is a lower dollar figure than they’d expect.

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I got my first pair of hiking boots for like 60$ on REI clearance and I racked up like 200 miles on those at least.

I have $40 sneakers ive worn a few times a week for 3 years that are still fine.

But theres something... extra thats more common in poor people that makes them blow out the bottoms a little bit faster

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REI is where its at with quality. In college I bought 4 pairs of made in USA new balances for $30 each from some absurd unannounced sale a “hypebeast” shoe store was having and they are all still complete functional, even with running, festivals, and hiking in them for years. $120 and I’ve had beaters that are still trendy for years.

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there sure as frick are people in poverty that waste money on shit they do not need

No kidding. And there are people in the top 1% who waste money on shit they don't need, too. Why don't people shame them?

I'm simply saying, if someone needs a treat to make themselves happy for a few minutes so they can get through their day, I'm not going to begrudge them that one minute of happiness.

I hate poors so much its unreal

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They don’t need cigarettes or lottery tickets.

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Lmao, this thread is gold.

I liked it. I followed a lot of advice here and harped on my SO about cutting takeout and coffee and all that stuff. Until we did the math and realized it wasn't actually making a dent in the budget. It was like 2k per year. What were we going to do with 2k? Not a darn thing lol. We'd be in essentially the exact same position. So why waste energy stressing about coffee?

Wow, bet they’re doing really well that 2k a year is literally nothing to them.

80k loans, average rate of 7%.

This b-word has 80k in student loans with 7% interest and she couldn’t think of think of any better thing to spend 2k a year on than fricking takeout and coffee.

I'm 31 and still live with roommates if that counts. I pay $275/month for "everything."

This b-word is engaged and apparently getting married soon and still living with roommates. :marseyxd:

Some people unironically deserve to die poor.

Another fun one.

Yup. I used to think I was going to have so much more money when I quit my pack a day smoking habit. Unfortunately, I was just as broke after quitting as I was before. I could breathe better though, so there was that.

Crazy she didn’t save any money after she quit smoking. :marseythinkorino:

I probably paid rent late a little less, maybe, or maybe that was how I got my DSL hooked up. I probably stopped asking my parents for so many handouts and was probably able to put a little more gasoline in my car. Who knows. Whatever I didn’t spend on cigarettes was spent on other needs.

Another r-slur who deserves to die poor.

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I am officially obese and it kills me.

Of course it’s a fat foid. :marseychonkerfoid:

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Just the loose change I have left at the end of the day from buying coffee adds up to about $20 a month


The time has come for the Necromaster. The unleashing of the fourth joker's card. The arrival of The Great Milenko

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