"Poverty charges interest"

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[dalton99a]

1. Kick

[WePurrsevere]

2. Very true IME. Poverty's 'interest' can literally kill you & often does. nt

[Wounded Bear]

3. K & R...for visibility...nt

[KitSileya]

4. Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic 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.

This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.”

― Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms: The Play

[Pepsidog]

5. Yea and it's Blue states paying for the backward thinking, ignorant red states

[KPN]

6. Plus with Trump in the WH, federal financial hits on blue States are SOP. It's a GOP rigged

system designed principally to perpetuate straight white male supremacy even though many of those straight white male GOPers think it's about "individual responsibility".

Fuck 'em if and when we ever gain control of all three branches. Bury them with and in their own s***.

[Pepsidog]

10. Yep. Vote them into oblivion.

[Garrett78]

11. I wish sometimes we could just have Blue America and Red America.

Each with their own respective government. Red America would learn very quickly that life without Blue America is very, very rough.

[erlewyne]

7. Poverty pays taxes everyday.

Poor pay more taxes than the super rich.

[Johnny2X2X]

8. No doubt

Struggled most of my life financially, I'm finally making real gains the last decade and this stuff is more evident to me than ever. Even buying in bulk at the grocery store cannot be overstated, I remember having to buy the 4 pack of toilet paper and the smallest bottles of household cleaners. It adds up quickly.

And car costs are a huge factor too, I finally was able to afford my first car that came with a factory warranty (still bought used). I've had several issues with the power train, brought it to the dealer and it's been fixed under warranty 3 times now, would have cost me a couple grand had the car been just a couple years older. Now I have a car with several brand new parts that won't go back for another 50,000 miles. I've spent thousands on car repairs, and often I had to just drive cars that had problems for months often leading to even bigger and more expensive problems. Heck, forget months, I drove cars with serious issues for years at times in my life.

And I will swear to this, I live in West Michigan, everyone does most of their shopping at Meijer, it;s a great alternative to Walmart that is locally owned. Much better produce and groceries, much nicer store. But I recently moved to a better area, I swear, the deals at Meijer are better in more wealthy areas. It just seems like so much of what I buy is always on sale at the nice Meijer.

Everything is more expensive when you are struggling. Renting is terrible right now, in my city it costs maybe 50% per month to rent than to buy the same home. Everything in America is stacked against the poor, when you pull yourself out of poverty it becomes more apparent than ever.

[Aristus]

9. 'Poverty Is Expensive'. That is the paraphrase of the title of a book

(I can't remember the actual title) that clarifies the crippling expenses for basic necessities that only the poor face. Like the 'Boots' theorem above. Or residents of food deserts having to shop for groceries in convenience stores, which have higher prices and a smaller selection than supermarkets.

Hourly, minimum wage workers, whose take-home doesn't keep pace with inflation, turn to payday loansharks to help make ends meet, and end up in a form of wage slavery to a rich payday lender by paying exorbitant interest rates and fees.

Public transit grows less and less prevalent, comprehensive, and convenient all the time, forcing struggling workers to purchase, fuel, and maintain cars when their income can't support it.

We have entered into a new feudal age...