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This 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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Probably run a functioning economy so that people can earn money at a rate faster than inflation? There’s more than one way to get fed. The UK economy has been one of the worst performers in developed economies since COVID.
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this idea that life decisions like choosing to have kids are always made solely by individuals in a vacuum without any societal nor contextual influence is just such a perfect example of the privilege the gp is describing
Nobody really makes any choices if you think about people biologically. I like to think people have some freedom and therefore some responsibility. Not too much. But some.
Every person bears responsibility for every decision they partake in, just as we also need to acknowledge that some have significantly more agency in such engagements than others.
This keeps happening to me. I read a feelgood story, visit the wiki page and then realize how muddy the water is: >> Monroe has been described as an "austerity celebrity". In a January 2023 interview with Simon Hattenstone in The Guardian, Monroe acknowledged that she had recklessly spent money given by backers; she claimed "I'd go online absolutely shitfaced and buy nice furniture." Granted most poor people do stupi…
One 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 pay…
The amount of hours I've spent on calls with the bank or filling out their damn budgets when I could have been spending the time working and earning.. I'd have probably been able to pay them off lol
Never mind all the paperwork and appointments and journaling you have to do if you need to claim benefits.
Luckily I managed to get freelancing off the ground in the 6 or so weeks I was waiting to see if they'd give me food money.
One day I'll earn enough to get to £0, then imma start helping everyone else in this situation. Being poor fucking sucks.
"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.
I can't read this, it makes me too sad for what my country has become.
It included a section about modified starches being used to save ingredient cost, as well as the more obvious reduction in meat content. https://twitter.com/hwallop/status/1734687477347254678
This seems spoken as a cry of desperation, but outside of the anglosphere it would be quite normal. If I were living as desperately as this person seems to be, and with a child to take care of, my (elderly, immigrant) parents would be begging me to come home so they could help me get back on my feet. Not because they are wealthy, but because in most of the world family is the most important thing.