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.

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• Silar@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Middle class, at least the income bracket that was middle class has been butchered.

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• HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If you don’t work with your hands but still need to work, you’re middle class, no?

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  • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    plenty of manual laborers make bank dude.

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• I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If you don’t have the poverty scar on one, or both, of your arms, I don’t want to hear shit about what you have to say on the topic of poverty.

  If you don’t know what the poverty scar is, and you live in the US, then I will just assume you’ve never struggled, nor been around those who do.

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  • Furbag@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Bingo

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  • SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Are you gatekeeping poverty?

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    • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨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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  • ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online ⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨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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• Tlf@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Depending on how you were raised you might think that this class is living in luxury until you realize that your parents relied on tull time double income to make that middle class happen. Marketing for this class is horrible for fighting class divide. It gives the impression that wealth is achievable for everyone which is just a lie.

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• SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Still waiting for that class revolution

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  • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ve been revolting since I was born.

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