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Northwestnogwatcher on scored.co

1 year ago 4 points (+0 / -0 / ) 1 child

Being poor comes down to living in your means. If you live within your means you won't feel poor. You won't have tons of luxuries but you'll be fine. Stay put of debt and don't accumulate tons of shit you don't need. I know lots of people that make over 250k a year that are effectively broke because they spend as fast as it comes in plus some.

Also, if you're 30 making minimum wage then you fucked up somewhere. You had 15 years to develope a skill that sells and you didn't. That's just being lazy. Do not pass go. Do not collect 200 shekels.

Welfare just makes it all worse. Now all the people who are broke complain that they're entitled to your money when reality pays a visit.

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BlackPillBot on scored.co

1 year ago 2 points (+0 / -0 / ) 1 child

I’m not trying to be argumentative, but genuinely curious. What do you consider to be poor IN AMERICA current year? I’m talking relative to what was attainable, and at what sacrifices compared to the average white man 20-30 years ago and beyond.

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Northwestnogwatcher on scored.co

1 year ago 2 points (+0 / -0 / ) 1 child

I apologize if I came off terribly argumentative, that wasn't my intention. I see what you mean I beleive. I would say, comparatively people aged 20 - 40 have much less wealth then previous generations. In terms of income it really depends. Living in LA making 50k a year is pretty rough. Living in middle Indiana is probably much nicer on 50k. The problem is it's become impossible for the middle class to exist due to unaffordable land/housing prices and a constant hike on the price of necessities. I never defined poor in terms of money but more in terms of money stress. I grew up where money was tight, but we never stressed because we just stayed in our means. Most people on America today are poor in the sense that they're over leveraged I would beleive. I beleive a lot of this is driven by the poor overall economic situation we're all in as well people's inability to tighten their belt.

To stab at that question:
Living in LA, making 50k per year, no car, 10k in credit card debt + any other debt is a solid example of a poor person.