Here's a realitiy show idea: SWITCH CLASSES FOR THIRTY DAYS.

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

Of course, it's not possible because few if any millionaires would take on poverty for a month. They couldn't handle it without lots of medication.

[midnight]

1. That is exactly why poverty must be ended.

Thanks for making this point.

[Fresh_Start]

2. Didn't Hilton and her girlfriend do that already? nt

nt

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

5. Not quite

they went to rural Arkansas, but the place where they stayed was middle class. If they really wanted to live like the poor, they could go live with a neighbor of mine, who has lived in abandoned houses, caves, and now resides in a hen house.

[Fresh_Start]

6. I never watched the show.

I thought I heard that stayed were they had to use an outdoor privy....which I would have thought indicated poor

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

9. Not around here

many use them because they conserve water, and because the ground is such that septic tanks cannot readily be put into place.

[Fresh_Start]

10. I never thought about the conserving water aspect

not doubting you, just trying to learn something....

what ground configuration is good for privy and bad for septic.
Don't they both require leach field?

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

11. There are outdoor toilets and indoor toilets

that don't use water. You can use a form of compost, usually sawdust, to "flush" the toilet after use. This soaks up liquids so that the amount of nitrogen and uric acid leaching into the soil is minimal. This is how it is done in my neck of the woods. We have an indoor "composting" toilet. About every two weeks we clean it out, placing the contents in a separate compost pile outside to be used on plants we don't intend to eat. Oh, and toilet paper is placed in its own container and burned.

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

7. *LOL*

:rofl:

[Warpy]

3. "Life Sucks" is a Mel Brooks movie

about a tycoon that goes on the street as a homeless guy on a bet. It's pretty far fetched because, although they insist poverty is a choice, none of the people in this country who aren't poor would ever choose it no matter what the reward might be.

I'm glad I had the experience of being poor, of being homeless for a short time, of experiencing what shelters are really like, and of watching everybody else running up debt on fancy houses, cars, vacations and toys while I lived out of thrift shops or made my own stuff. If we do experience another great depression, I'll know what to do about it.

I would never choose it, however. Nobody would.

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

8. Those experiences make YOU more worthy of leadership than those without it.

It's true, what you say: no one would choose poverty.

It's also true that, the experiences you and I have gathered will get us through the toughest times.

:hi:

Thanks for posting!!!!

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

4. Good point

I'd love to see how Donald Trump does sleeping in his car for a month, then have to get up and work two or three minimum wage jobs. Or better yet, switch with a person living in a cabin with wood heat and no electricity and an outhouse--you can find these in many rural areas.