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People who treat your inability to pay for things as a choice deserve to be thrown out of a building (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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"Why don't you want to come to my wedding?"

"I want to come but I can't afford a ticket overseas."

"Whatever, if you want to stay home and miss out on life that's your decision I guess."

Apparently me saying no to this wedding was the last straw for them, because they're always asking me to do things I can't afford and they don't seem to understand why I can't despite me telling them every time that I am poor. So now I'm the bad person because I'm totally being poor and "holding myself back" on purpose.

If they want to burn this bridge they can fuck right off. I've had enough of this shit.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It’s kind of why I stopped using “basement dweller” as an insult. Especially in the modern day, it just feels like you’re mocking someone for being an icky icky poor person.

Come to think of it, poor people always have how much they spend of save money scrutinized but never rich people. If a rich person was caught intentionally doing wage theft, there’d be excuse after excuse of smuglords saying “it’s financial literacy sweaty”, but if a poor person lives with their parents to build savings, they’re seen as losers. Possibly fueled in no small part that some landlord deserves that money.