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Patlal
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This is what poverty looks like
#23819439 - 11/10/16 11:40 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Some people are actually forced to live this way. So sad....
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Re: This is what poverty looks like [Re: Patlal]
#23819522 - 11/10/16 11:54 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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As long as you're eating, you're doing fine.
I have lived incredibly poor before, which was actually kind of fun when I think back about it.
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Re: This is what poverty looks like [Re: Patlal]
#23819530 - 11/10/16 11:56 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Aren't you the guy who quit his job that he got from his college degree?
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Re: This is what poverty looks like [Re: Crazy_Horse]
#23819537 - 11/10/16 11:58 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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I ate top ramen last night.
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Patlal
You ask too many questions



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Re: This is what poverty looks like [Re: Crazy_Horse]
#23819606 - 11/10/16 12:14 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Crazy_Horse said: Aren't you the guy who quit his job that he got from his college degree?
no
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Re: This is what poverty looks like [Re: Patlal] 3
#23819671 - 11/10/16 12:30 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Name brand soup?
Oysters Rockafeller over here.
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Re: This is what poverty looks like [Re: Patlal] 2
#23819675 - 11/10/16 12:32 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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The only thing I'm not looking forward to about living poor is not being able to spend money on my bikes. Other than that, I welcome it, and intend to spend the next 10 years living on a pittance, after spending the last 9 earning shitloads.
Fuck money, fuck excess, fuck possessions. I know damn well I'll be happier without.
Well, as long as I have just 1 bike. The 5 I have now are so unnecessary.
-------------------- Let it be seen that you are nothing. And in knowing that you are nothing... there is nothing to lose, there is nothing to gain. What can happen to you? Something can happen to the body, but it will either heal or it won't. What's the big deal? Let life knock you to bits. Let life take you apart. Let life destroy you. It will only destroy what you are not. --Jac O'keeffe
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Putin
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You're so successful.
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Re: This is what poverty looks like [Re: Putin]
#23819689 - 11/10/16 12:36 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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No, I'm the opposite. I've succeeded at the things that really don't matter at all, and so I have thus far failed.
Maybe one day, with lots of free time, love, family and friends I'll be successful. But that's a long way away from where I am now.
-------------------- Let it be seen that you are nothing. And in knowing that you are nothing... there is nothing to lose, there is nothing to gain. What can happen to you? Something can happen to the body, but it will either heal or it won't. What's the big deal? Let life knock you to bits. Let life take you apart. Let life destroy you. It will only destroy what you are not. --Jac O'keeffe
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Can I have your possessions mate? I'll gladly suffer the pain of material trappings.
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Jokeshopbeard
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If you pay off my £8,500 outstanding debt, you can take whatever you want, as long as I keep one bike.
-------------------- Let it be seen that you are nothing. And in knowing that you are nothing... there is nothing to lose, there is nothing to gain. What can happen to you? Something can happen to the body, but it will either heal or it won't. What's the big deal? Let life knock you to bits. Let life take you apart. Let life destroy you. It will only destroy what you are not. --Jac O'keeffe
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Modest mouse.
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Asante
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Name brand soup, antistick enamelware, snazzy counter...
This is what poverty looks like:

Living day by day out of a rice bag, hoping you can get something to eat with it.
Not that scammer but, I know a family who lives that way.
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Re: This is what poverty looks like [Re: Asante] 1
#23819713 - 11/10/16 12:46 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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When i was a kid we were so broke we'd kill squirrels and eat them cooked into a stew with rice or potatoes if we had them using whatever we could find to season it with. FWIW, American poverty is no where near as bad as poverty in India or other countries.
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Re: This is what poverty looks like [Re: Eywa_devotee] 2
#23819719 - 11/10/16 12:48 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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I've seen poverty in India and Africa first hand. What baffles me is that the poeple living in slums always seemed like they were kinda happy, whereas the people in the city of London I'm surrounded by daily, with their money and iphones and TV's and houses always seem miserable.
Something paradoxical is a work there. I saw hundreds of smiles on the faces of poverty stricken people on my travels, but struggle to find a single one on the faces of rich British folk.
-------------------- Let it be seen that you are nothing. And in knowing that you are nothing... there is nothing to lose, there is nothing to gain. What can happen to you? Something can happen to the body, but it will either heal or it won't. What's the big deal? Let life knock you to bits. Let life take you apart. Let life destroy you. It will only destroy what you are not. --Jac O'keeffe
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Asante
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Re: This is what poverty looks like [Re: Jokeshopbeard] 2
#23819758 - 11/10/16 12:59 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Eywa_devotee said: When i was a kid we were so broke we'd kill squirrels and eat them cooked into a stew with rice or potatoes if we had them using whatever we could find to season it with. FWIW, American poverty is no where near as bad as poverty in India or other countries.
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Jokeshopbeard said: I've seen poverty in India and Africa first hand. What baffles me is that the poeple living in slums always seemed like they were kinda happy, whereas the people in the city of London I'm surrounded by daily, with their money and iphones and TV's and houses always seem miserable.
Something paradoxical is a work there. I saw hundreds of smiles on the faces of poverty stricken people on my travels, but struggle to find a single one on the faces of rich British folk.
Don't underestimate American poverty. If you are poor in lets say Senegal, then everybody you know is poor and the riches of the west are a dream, almost a fairy tale. People are happier because poverty is the norm and people know how to handle poverty. People SHARE LIKE MANIACS. Really, if one gets a bag of rice it gets shared with several families, and this all the way around, people work each others land together, put the neigbor's baby on their own breast people SHARE in a way unthinkable in the west.
In the west if you are poor you are surrounded by wealth you once possessed or will never have, stores are chock full of goodies and everybody is selfish. Its so different. Everybody is RICH and you are NOT and barely any of them SHARES WITH YOU. There is far less incentive to have a smile on your face.
People are at their best, their most generous and social, in times of want, need and catastrophe. Then they open up because its a survival incentive. Being poor during the Great Depression, or now in a Ghetto, is better than being "randomly poor" because then you are surrounded by wealth and everybody perceives you as a problem.
The finest years of Holland in the last century were the decades after the war when we were rebuilding, and "getting there". Once we "got there" all the idealism went overboard.
Striving together is the best state for humans to be in. A need that unites you.
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