How does it feel to be poor?

sderenzi said:
I think being poor just makes you want to kill everyone around you, thus you'll become a postal worker and go nuts shooting everyone.
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That's a joke?
 
baumgarten said:
Oh man. I so wish Sciforums allowed signatures right now.
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This has nothing to dow ith signatures.

The fact is that the rich own you. They control you. You are a slave.
 
cool skill said:
The fact is that the rich own you. They control you. You are a slave.
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Can you explain that, Cool Skill? I mean, HOW do the rich do such things to the people?

And how can you explain that some poor people become rich people by hard work, luck or whatever means available? Many, many people start out poor and become rich in the USA, the statistics are available if you know where to look. So how is that possible if the rich own us, control us and enslave us?

Baron Max
 
Nobody owes you shit, cool_skill. The sooner you get that into your head, the better.

Life isn't fair and no, it shouldn't be made fair the way you're talking about it.

If the shoe was on the other foot, you'd worked extremely hard for many years and owned your own business that employed people at a rate you believed to be fair: would you still agree that wealthy people should be stripped of their money?

Would you fuck. You sound lazy and greedy, a nasty combination.
 
Baron Max said:
HOW do the rich do such things to the people?
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It's perfectly legal. And the government helps too!

And how can you explain that some poor people become rich people by hard work, luck or whatever means available?
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Intelligence and luck.
 
Third Decree:
No more rich people ... or poor people ... From now on, we will all be the same! Uh ... I don't know, I gotta think about that!
 
I never understood just how much money effected my life until I noticed it was partly keeping me from forming relationships. When I see someone that's poor I instantly believe they'll just bring me down to their level if I associate with them, thus I keep away. The same goes for rich people, they don't associate with the average street people because they think it may somehow effect their monies.

What I'm starting to figure out is that by not seeing people as human instead of rating them by how much they make it hurts me more then them. Money has no real significance to how people will relate or what they'll find they enjoy doing together. In truth money is really only important if you want alot of things like a brand new car, a house, and vacations. With me I just live day-to-day and do what I can.

I felt so bad asking woman out or even talking to them because I don't make alot, but I feel more confident that besides money there is also humanity, and we can all share in that without fear of being ridiculed.
 
cool skill said:
There are people in this world that have millions and billions of dollars. Yet there is poverty on this planet. This is impractical. They should be stripped of their funds whic should be diverted to the poor.
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So, the tyranny of the inept, incompetent, unmotivated and/or lazy is to forcibly enslave and rob from the ept, competent, motivated and/or industrious because there exists no other possible means by which the inept, incompetent, unmotivated and/or lazy can possibly become the equal of the ept, competent, motivated and/or industrious?

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cool skill said:
This has nothing to dow ith signatures.

The fact is that the rich own you. They control you. You are a slave.
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Ha, that's funny...you can be as poor as you want anf no one is going to care or start your own small business.

The thing is if you dont have cash, you just settle for ugly chicks.
 
madanthonywayne said:
I've been poor. When I was supporting a wife and kid and working my way thru college. I did yard work, worked at seven-eleven, worked at a factory, even worked for the government. Most of the time I had more than one job in addition to being a full time student.
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What'd you get your degree(s) in?
 
original said:
Baron Max, I've got to ask: How do you keep your food budget at $2 per day?
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I've been wondering the answer to this question myself I'm starting to toy around with th idea of how to actually do it.


I'm thinking maybe if a person bought food in 14 dollar intervals every two weeks (due to some of the stuff potentially being perishable).
If the person was able to obtain a bag of apples, and a bag of oranges, that will take care of breakfast for two weeks. Also buy a carton of eggs since they are cheap, and have a bunch of calories. Buy a bag of rice (million and one ways to cook rice). Meat will be the biggest problem since it's typically expensive--- perhaps buy a package of abyssmally cheap hot dogs, and break off tiny chunks in meals as the meat item. The person could buy a couple of cans of corn/peas, and stretch the ingredients over as many meals as possible.

I'll bet someone living this way would treat sales/coupons like they were sent from god.
 
original said:
Baron Max, I've got to ask: How do you keep your food budget at $2 per day?
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I'd say...

Bread, peanut butter, eggs, Old Fashion oatmeal (you know, the plain jane), cheap multivitamins, apples, oranges, rice, and the leaves off trees.
 
cool skill said:
You are a servant. How pathetic. You serve serve and serve, and get paid crap. You do the actual work, and get paid shit. Meanwile, the rich don't have to do any of that nonsense, and make alot more money than that.
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Shall we enact laws that prevent people from owning a company and being the boss? Should the janitor be paid just as much as the computer programmer? Hell, the programmer sits on his ass all day.
 
Nickelodeon said:
I thought you didn't believe in statistics?
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I hate to agree with cool skill, but his "beliefs" about statisics has nothing to do with the answer.

I too would like CS to explain.
 
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