This poster is just about sharing divisive bullshit. None of it's real all of its propaganda designed to get people riled up and mad at each other along class lines. Check their post history it's all bullshit. It's like top down meme though control
Thank you for the warning.
So let me share my experience to balance it out: in my village there is a tiny building by the road that used to be a gas station in the 50s/60s.
Today the main road has been diverted so only local traffic is passing by and the station has been closed for decades.
10 years ago a group of people decided to transform the building, they got money from the town for paint and changing the window and now it's like a little free library but for books, toys and clothes. The whole village is using it.
A lot of it is kid clothing, it's always open without anyone to supervise it and people are respectful, it stays clean and people don't storm the place to resell what they can.
This sounds delightful and like a place that isn't still paying the cost of slavery. Occasionally in areas that are rural enough there will be farm stands where folks pay for items on an honor system. But it's gotta be pretty far away from the cities. Your town sounds like a place where people respect a basic dignity of folks and we need more of it
How can I apply for citizenship?
Something tells me it's a bot that reposts popular Reddit memes.
Ok, private
Conditional "kindness" isn't kindness, it's infantilization.
Real "kindness" is giving people what you can, and trusting them to use it the best they can. No means or ways testing.
This is one reason direct cash transfers are so effective, because cash is no versatile.
But being helpful is very much conditional on the understood premise of the situation.
I'd be happy to help a buddy move house for a pack of beers.
Not so much if they are selling the furniture and using me for free labor.
That's not being kind. That's being transactional.
I always struggle with this during garage sales. Most of the time, I don't even want money for my stuff. I just want it to go to someone who needs it.
But if you put a FREE sign on anything, people will just scoop it up, throw it in a truck already loaded with other free stuff, and take it to the flea market to sell.
It shouldn't bother me, since the people selling stuff at the flea market usually are pretty poor themselves and probably need to make money. But it just irks me that instead of a mom getting free clothes for her kids, that mom would instead have to buy them at a markup instead.
It irked me the year my neighbors girlfriend got free bikes from the tommy toy fund for her two kids, pregnant with her third. She tried to sell the bikes on FB market place, and the nighbors roommate called her out on it. Idk if she sold them or not but it did upset me when it was happening, to take from your kids like that.
Years later I realized, theyre just poor. She didnt finish High School, came from poverty and sometimes you do not so moral shit to pay your bills. The boyfriend worked at walmart, similar background as his girl, and they probably were trying their best. I cant be mad their parents didnt instill the importance of education, this young couple were just trying to get by. If she wasnt desperate, she would have kept the bikes for her children Id bet.
A very different person, a person of poverty for their whole life said to me once, "you gotta take what you can get". While they used it as a way to excuse non ethical ways of living, which I didnt agree with, the years have shown me how folks can take this and run with the line of thinking. "Poverty Brain" I call it. Its more sad than infuriating now.
Our society is not built for everyone, and if thats not the human goal, I dont understand why we're here.
When I was homless a friend gave me a really nice, large heavy blanket that came from her well off mothers house. It was the nicest blanket I ever owned. It got stolen from a laundry mat. I was SO upset, but even then, just hoped, that person needed the blanket more than I did.
there is a solution for that - vibe checks! if that person in front of you seems kind and like they actually need what you're selling - give it to them for free. but if they're just looking for deals to resell, keep the prices
This is the kind of means-testing governments do for benefits, right? Or is it more like social profiling? You can sell what you want, but when you start to put rules in place it gets icky quite fast.
i'm not recommending this method to governments though, am i?
i recommend it for people who do garage sales once every few years who feel bad charging people for what they don't need
Then everyone clapped. Those lousy poors, not understanding the value of expensive footwear. So undignified.
nah this easily could've happened. i once had a neighbour of mine 1. ask me if that old basket in the corner of the hallway serving as a bin for spam mail was mine because she wanted to take it 2. ask me to sell her my flat?? in the same 3min conversation? so clearly she could very easily afford her own old basket but no, taking the communal one would be cheaper
a lot of rich people get rich by being scumbags
I'd like to bring attention to the child in this scenario.
How pissed would you be if your neighbor just gave your mom the most kick ass set of Jordan's youve ever seen, the entire class will be jealous of them
and your mom sells it to buy wheat thins.
You as a child would not understand the need for groceries. all you know is that your mom gave away your one chance at fitting in for wheat thins.
Who would buy "the most kick ass set of Jordans you've ever seen" for a boy who is still growing so fast they outgrow the shoes while they're barely worn?
a parent with the means who wants their child to enjoy their childhood ? wtf kind of question is that?
Should've just given them directly to the son to wear immediately so he can enjoy them.
Lots of local subreddits have questions like this:
Where can I give my stuff away to some organization or person who will value this stuff more than me who is giving it away ?
Just let your old stuff go. If you want to take profit, take it. If you want to give profit, give it. But trying to do both is a waste of time and an insult.
I think you missed the point. The point isn't that OP wants to make money.
You also shouldn't try to control your kindness. If you are giving it away because you hope someone else will find use from it... Then that is the end of your need to control it. They can sell it and use the money to buy shoes and or other things they need or want.
The point is that OP wanted to be kind in a specific way and would rather enrich themselves if it couldn't be met. Thats not kindness.
I give you a gift; you can do whatever you want. Go home and fuck it or whatever. It's obvious I have no say in it.
But selling a gift outright right away is insulting. It's common courtesy, then, to at least hide the fact that you're going to.
Saying "Oh, I'm selling this" right to my face feels like a giant fuck you to me.
I never got the idea that the mom who was to receive the shoes is poor. She lives next door not in another neighbourhood. The only thing was that her son was younger and would maybe like to receive a cool hand me down.
Outside of suburban hell people of vastly different economic situations generally live right near each other.
For instance, next door from me are two dudes who couldn't afford a fridge for the first couple months they lived here, they work and study, the next neighbor owns the entire building and his own contracting company.
There person in the story could truly be suffering, but it's sold as "lol Karen got owned".
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