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[-] Sop@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 4 days ago

People need to face the reality that currently for a lot of people it’s just not possible to escape the reality of living in financial distress and on the edge of homelessness their whole lives. Just because you know of some lucky people who were able to escape it doesn’t mean that it’s possible for everyone. It’s really demeaning to tell people to ‘work harder’ or ‘change it up’ ‘you’ll get there!’. Because you’re implying that it’s their fault if it doesn’t get better.

The only way to change this reality is to change the system we live in, and to stop letting rich people rule our economies and thus our lives.

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

At the root of it yes. I'm not trying to blame people who keep their nose to grind wheel for whatever reason, and there are legitimate reasons to do so. I'm just saying that when the system is this broken we should be throwing the box away. We don't owe the elites shit. I legitimately looked into the price of living in camp grounds at one point before we were able to bring in more money. It's a 2 week limit in each spot but the "rent" is far lower.

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