The reason the rich are rich is that they extract value from others' work. Everything else is just a bonus.

"Some stay dry and others feel the pain" (Tay Zonday)

While this is true for the differences between upper-middle-class and middle-class and poverty which is a lets say 5 or 10 times difference in income, it is not true for the ultra wealthy who are in a completely different league and earn 1000 or 1million times as much.

Came here to say exactly this!

Yeah, that's him. I was curious and looked him up a while back. Tay get really open about speaking for economic and social justice. He's more or less always been that way. Chocolate Rain, is, IIRC, a song about the realities and struggles of being black in America.

He moves away from the mic to breathe, then spits truth.

I think it literally is the Chocolate Rain guy.

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"Give a man a fire and he’s warm for a day, but set fire to him and he’s warm for the rest of his life."

"Grocery stores"

Buddy of mine is going through a divorce. Wife crashed his car the day she told him about her affair. Selling their house now, he's in it (carless) and going through a divorce.

The choices for grocery shopping in less than an hour walk from his house are a Family Dollar and a Cumberland Farms (a gas station). And they are both literally uphill both ways.

How the fuck can people be healthy on that?

His house isn't even far out in the boonies. It's maybe like a quarter mile off a main road. My house is way worse for that. I don't even think I could buy food within a walkable distance. Maybe eggs and milk from a backyard farmers but that's it.

Yeah they charge more, have less variety, and have fewer sales (discounts). A friend of mine did a (unpublished for an undergraduate course) study on it and the differences between stores even a half mile away are just crazy.

yeah he's pretty cool.

Exactly what I was thinking of, glad the fame and money didn't change him!

great song

It's not a shitpost. I have no idea why shitpost ends up being a /all board.

Im required to have health insurance, but health insurance costs me so much I can't actually afford to use it.

And despite struggling to put food on the table every week I make 'too much' to qualify for any assistance.

Overdraft because you literally don't have any money? That'll be more money please.

That is essentially the car version of the Sam Vimes “Boots” Theory of Socio-Economic Unfairness.

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.

-Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett

The only way I've made used tires work is to put in a lot more leg work - pick a part salvage lots would sell them for like $20-25 ea in the past, and you can pick some good ones with good tread.

EDIT: just checked current prices, it looks like you can get a tire for $25, tire and a wheel would be about $40 ea. Putting a tire on a wheel without the right equipment is very difficult though, maybe some shops will do it for you as a service?