It’s expensive to be poor. It’s harder to get out poverty than to be born wealthy with family that has connections and opportunities. Spend your money extremely wisely, because it’s the real way we vote in this system.
I’ve asked myself the question a lot lately, “What am I spending money on that’s a waste perpetuating this broken system which I could stop spending today?”
The only way to rise is to be smarter than the systems designed to drag us down. If you need a clear example, just look at a casino.
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TIL!
Should be Vimes’ Boots Theory, GNU Terry Pratchett. Many have said it, but he kicked it right in the nuts.
The opening sentence is “the Sam Vimes theory of socioeconomic unfairness, often called simply the boots theory”
Didn’t say Pratchett’s Boots theory, he was way too modest. I just personally think he’s likely one of the best satirists of his era (happy to compare to Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels but with significantly more uplifting) and deserves the recognition, can we not stretch to title it with one of his more beloved characters, likely similarly modest, something of a lost art these days.(I will admit I should take it up with wiki rather than here, more comfortable here though).
The worst part is that this is most true when it comes to groceries. You can save thousands of dollars a year on groceries if you are able to invest in your pantry and freezer or afford to buy bulk.
Yup, and then on top of that the time to be able to use those bulk ingredients to prepare healthy meals. If you’re poor, stressed, and working two jobs, you don’t really have time for that right? The tax of convenience hits those with the least amount of time to invest in themselves.
One has to bite through the fatigue this society creates to cook. Why spend $10 for a single meal when you can spend that on groceries and make several. It’s just really hard some days and I get that, but take a little time here and there to cook something. It helps having something like that on the side instead of existence meals.
The only way to win is not to play.
Unfortunately not playing means death so…
Not really, that’s an absolute. The way to win is to be smart about how you spend your money. Don’t be wasteful.
Capitalists own everything so any money you spend is propping them up. If i go live out in the woods they don’t win.
You’re so right. This is the way we can solve poverty in the West. We just need you to build some curriculum and train a team of trainers. Then we can send all of you out there and just teach people how to win. Such a missed opportunity over the last thousand years that we haven’t figured it out yet. Thank God you’re here
I’ve decided to eat out less and cook at home more often. I’ve been looking up recipes and have taken some inspiration from Great Depression era cooking. I have access to seasonings still so I can take something like a Hoover Stew and flavor it up as well as use slightly better ingredients for more flavor. It’s cheap, pretty tasty, filling, and lasts a while.
I’m fortunate I have a regional grocery chain and don’t have to shop at Wal-Mart or Target for my groceries and some toiletries. For everything else though, I gauge heavily “Do I need this at all?” I’ve reached a point where I’m not spending as much as I did and working to pay down debts as well as save.
