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You Don't Batch Cook When You're Suicidal (2020)
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#32"And my main point is that poverty and privilege are largely accidental. You don’t choose to be born into an income bracket, a country pile, a housing estate, a double barrelled name or a damp tenement bedsit. But ignorance is a choice. And choosing to use your privileges to patronise people whose lives are entirely beyond your experience and comprehension, is a choice."
> But ignorance is a choice. No, it's not always a choice. You might be born in a family and community that actively brainwashes their members and prevents you from coming into contact with conflicting information. This can even be true in less severe circumstances, such as being bombarded with propaganda on social media, which essentially hacks your brain.
I too disagree with that statement. Ignorance is just ignorance. What would make the GP's comment more accurate would be willful ignorance, but even that is stretching. To me, willful ignorance is just a sugar coating for a much more accurate/harsh description of what is actually happening.
Re: You Don't Batch Cook When You're Suicidal (2020)
#33One if the worst parts of poverty is that it steals all of your time!
All your time is devoted to just surviving, so you can never really better you situation.
You want to improve your situation? Not happening, you gotta work 60 hours this week so you cant study for that AWS cert or medical coding cert.
Then the job you work is most likely dead end with no advancement or fake advancement.
So you live pay check to paycheck with no hope of escape.
Then if you dont have parents or luck... to help one catastrophe and youre doomed.
And luck is not a strategy.
You literally are trapped by capitalism.
Then even if youre able to scrape together some time every week to better yourself... so many artificial walls have been erected to prevent smart hardworking people from entering professions.
That includes jacking prices on universities and industries requiring university education for licenses instead of a test/apprenticeship.
Things you used to be able to do without formal schooling: law, cpa, PE, teaching, hair dressing, and more.
Basically massive friction has been added to smart hard working people trying to skill up instead of supporting people skilling up to their potential.
Tech is one of the few actually meritocratic middle class industries left but is now getting watered down by the entire world entering the industry.
As a side note, think of all the wasted potential that could be bettering the human race who are trapped in the cycle of poverty.
There could be a Mozart out there whose parents can't afford a fucking keyboard.
Re: You Don't Batch Cook When You're Suicidal (2020)
#34This is a great article. How it ended up on HN I don't know, but can somebody please start submitting more like this, and fewer techno-babble thinkpieces by junior javascript contractors who host their own mail?
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Re: You Don't Batch Cook When You're Suicidal (2020)
#35Humm, I have a feeling part of the story is missing here, even though i can relate as i was myself a minimum wage worker in the hospitality industry in Britain for a while (back in 1999, my annual wage was something like 8500 pounds). Long odd hours, not so pleasant interfacing with customers, 7 people sharing a flat in London, so broke at the end of the month that walking from Mayfair to Canada Water was reality because no money for public transport....
Yet, as a foreigner, I (We, as a matter of fact, since all my friends and colleagues were either german, italian, spanish, chinese...) had no real social safety net to rely on. We couldn't go back to our family (500 miles away) with our tail between our legs in case we really fucked up.
Something isn't clear in this writer's account of the reason of her living in poverty, whether it is a story of mental illness, child abuse... things i witnessed years later when i bought a flat in Barking (poor white area of greater London) and this i feel would need to be clarified for me to be able to accept the conclusion that "poverty is largely accidental", especially coming from someone quite so articulate.
Re: You Don't Batch Cook When You're Suicidal (2020)
#36Good heavens, this is some writing. Deeply relatable as someone who has also lived in not so nice circumstances in the UK for much of my life. I like to think i'm on the way to escaping it but we'll see.
Aye, likewise. So damn relatable.
Especially the pics of rice with various vegetables. I'll always have a bag of rice and a bag of frozen veg just in case, even if I become a billionaire somehow.
Survived for literal years on that combo, lol.
Re: You Don't Batch Cook When You're Suicidal (2020)
#37"And my main point is that poverty and privilege are largely accidental. You don’t choose to be born into an income bracket, a country pile, a housing estate, a double barrelled name or a damp tenement bedsit. But ignorance is a choice. And choosing to use your privileges to patronise people whose lives are entirely beyond your experience and comprehension, is a choice."
> And choosing to use your privileges to patronise people whose lives are entirely beyond your experience and comprehension, is a choice Not sure how that way of thinking is productive. Patronising people is bad in itself. Thinking that people you perceive as "privileged" can't comprehend you is a choice too and a form of ignorance.
> Thinking that people you perceive as "privileged" can't comprehend you is a choice too and a form of ignorance.
You've kinda proven their point with this statement, no?
Re: You Don't Batch Cook When You're Suicidal (2020)
#38"And my main point is that poverty and privilege are largely accidental. You don’t choose to be born into an income bracket, a country pile, a housing estate, a double barrelled name or a damp tenement bedsit. But ignorance is a choice. And choosing to use your privileges to patronise people whose lives are entirely beyond your experience and comprehension, is a choice."
> But ignorance is a choice. No, it's not always a choice. You might be born in a family and community that actively brainwashes their members and prevents you from coming into contact with conflicting information. This can even be true in less severe circumstances, such as being bombarded with propaganda on social media, which essentially hacks your brain.
I had a friend from a rough upbringing who called it, "poverty mindset".
Eg you have a success in your life? Prepare to be shunned and thought of with disdain by your community.
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#40What the heck is going on with this page, it gets struck in some kind of high speed reload loop on my phone (iOS Safari)
Blame WordPress / Jetpack. I am a follower of her site for years, have all her books. What crashed her site I have no idea but it has never been the same since. It's a shame that Automattic - who created Jetpack - never reached out to help her restore the site. They have no obligation of course, but given her profile, given the massive good that she does, it would have been decent of them to do that.
WordPress person here: How is Jetpack at fault here? I deal with "redirect loops" on WordPress websites on a regular basis, and I've never found Jetpack to cause the issue - do you have insight here?
FWIW I see no redirect loop on mobile (iOS/Safari)