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  • Taking pride in working with your hands.
    Taking pride in knowing you earn an honest living.
    Paying taxes and knowing you do it to support your community.
    Loving other human beings.
    Empathy, and simply putting yourself in somebody else's shoes.
    Having human feelings.
    ...

    So many things...

  • Giving a fuck about the struggles of others. Rich people don't see others people's problems because they lack empathy.

    Need surgery? Just pay for it.

    Why can't you go to the $60 a head restaurant, it's very tasty.

    Climate change? Just ac or the heater.

  • Buying things piecemeal. This is also doubles as an answer to "why it's financially unwise to be poor." We buy shampoo, conditioner, and sometimes even soap in single-use sachets. Of course, it is more economical to buy in larger quantities, because you can control your portion sizes and whatnot. But when that bottle of shampoo costs the equivalent of the day's meals (two, maybe three), then the reasoning becomes understandable. A lot of stuff are hence available here in "single-use" sachets or packets.

    A lot of these things have overlap with "travel-size" stuff that are actually quite logical when you're traveling, but for a lot of us here, it's what we buy week in, week out.

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    Clarified, reworded, and added some stuff.

    • I have never been close to rich, but never truly poor either. 20 years ago my friend was in a credit card debt spiral of fees. I didn't get it so she explained how the fees for not paying back the credit card prevented her from paying back her credit card and she never had money because it cost money to not have money.

      "So like.. what kind of figure are we talking about? What would you need to not have to pay one month's fees? And if I loan you this amount you'll be out of the debt spiral? It will fix this being charged fees so you keep having to pay fees bullshit?"

      If you know the Terry Pratchett's Boots thing it was like loaning her enough for one good pair of boots and solving so many financial problems. Even something like that I would never have understood without it being explained.

      • This is painfully true here as well. Worse, it's not just credit cards. There are payday loans here that, while you can take out a loan without much hassle, you and your loved ones will be hounded by their agents if you even delay a single payment.

        And then there's these loan sharks whose main shtick is to provide loans with 20% interest (so-called 5/6--you loan 5 bucks, you pay 6 bucks). It's kinda crazy to imagine that these loan sharks are the most humane one of the bunch, but with these loansharks, you can at least reason with them.

    • Where do you live that they sell single use sachets of shampoo, out of interest?

      I want to guess somewhere in Asia.

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