Some of us put the style in cheap. Some of us just look cheap. Some of us are too cheap to look stylish, we are the ones that leave large estates and rich next generation.
If think you're missing the point. Rich people can buy the same stuff but all at once, to avoid interest; better quality, to remove the need to replace or repair; and in bulk, to benefit from economies of scale. Being poor is literally expensive even for basic necessities. One example is that I'd be saving £200 this year if I could pay my insurance up front
You're missing the point. You can spend less on insurance by having a lesser car or no car at all and save that money.... "Keeping up with the Jones" is what leads people to being poor no matter how much money they make.
Yes, because when you're poor suddenly there's no need for a car or groceries. If you think "keeping up with the Jones" is the root of poverty, you're obviously taking from a place of privilege and you have no idea.
This is often quoted but whenever being poor vs rich comes up I'll never not quote it just because it's so good.
"The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.
Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.
But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.
This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness."
-Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms, Discworld series
I encourage anyone who hasn't read Discworld yet to take a look at it.
oh boy do the truth hurt very very much
I think I heard some Republicans say just don't be poor. Seems like sound logic
If you're homeless just buy a house.
Duh!
Some people, they like to go out dancing. Other people, they have to work.
Sometimes it do
So very accurate
It's probably more expensive to be poor than to be rich actually.
Being poor is expensive physically and probably mentally while being rich is expensive if u have a family Bc there is always a big disconnect
It's worse than expensive. It's time-consuming.
"The problem with being poor is that it takes all your time."
— Barbara Ehrenreich
Money is just tradable time
Nothing is more expensive than being poor.
Stick that on a food stamp
I think that I get what you are saying. Would you mind explaining for clearifacation purposes though?
Can't. Got denied because income "exceeds the limit for this program"
So they punished you for earning money? Hmmm that seems like a system that's based on keeping you poor.
Some of us put the style in cheap. Some of us just look cheap. Some of us are too cheap to look stylish, we are the ones that leave large estates and rich next generation.
It's not what you make, it's what you spend....
The sooner you understand that concept, the better off you will be.
If think you're missing the point. Rich people can buy the same stuff but all at once, to avoid interest; better quality, to remove the need to replace or repair; and in bulk, to benefit from economies of scale. Being poor is literally expensive even for basic necessities. One example is that I'd be saving £200 this year if I could pay my insurance up front
You're missing the point. You can spend less on insurance by having a lesser car or no car at all and save that money.... "Keeping up with the Jones" is what leads people to being poor no matter how much money they make.
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Yes, because when you're poor suddenly there's no need for a car or groceries. If you think "keeping up with the Jones" is the root of poverty, you're obviously taking from a place of privilege and you have no idea.
Lmao nah
This is often quoted but whenever being poor vs rich comes up I'll never not quote it just because it's so good.
"The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.
Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.
But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.
This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness."
-Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms, Discworld series
I encourage anyone who hasn't read Discworld yet to take a look at it.
I think he puts the vimes boots theory in several of the Discworld books. I first read it in Jingo
Really? I haven't read them in so long.
Great book!
That is indeed a very fitting quote! Maybe more relevant today than it's been for a long time. Thanks for sharing!
Look at something as simple as an overdraft fee
And I don't want to hear manage you money better eating Thursday makes you do it
Are you okay?
Me I'm good no issues at all I have just been around too many people that have had to make that decision