Comment on People who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be rich and how close middle class is to being below the poverty line.

I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Furbag@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I presume you are referencing people who donate plasma as frequently as possible to earn extra money to survive?

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  • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    apparently you’re not in poverty if you donate plasma? that’s a new talking point.

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    • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Opposite of that. People who have been in poverty for a long time know that plasma donation is one of the ways to keep the lights on or be able to afford food that week. After repeated donations, you are left with a buildup of scar tissue.

      Those who haven’t suffered in poverty may donate occasionally for a few extra bucks, or just for the sake of doing it. But only those who are doing it constantly, twice a week, every week (that’s the maximum) for a long period of time will develop a scar.

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  • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Bingo

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• SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Are you gatekeeping poverty?

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  • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m pointing out a major, physical, sign that someone is, or has, struggled with poverty and knows first hand how hard that is.

    I see way too many “hot takes” on how poverty works from people who don’t have the scar, or even know what it is. To me, that’s a big red flag that they don’t know wtf they’re talking about as they haven’t experienced it.

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    • SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Generalizing things never work well.

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• ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I dont have a poverty scar but I know what it looks like… also I have been to the US. In many circumstances it is actually hard for me to believe that is the richest country on earth.

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• Alaik@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Oh damn. Well you can’t give plasma until youre 16, but I guess being homeless, having sleep for dinner and all of that growing up isn’t poverty because I couldn’t pass for a 16 year old as a child?

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