RandalFlagg said:

In order to pay for rent, utilities, food, car insurance, etc... you need to make so much more money than low-paying jobs pay.

How the hell do people do it?  I'm sincerely interested.

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I made very little money my entire life.  So I went back to school and qualified for $16,000 worth of grants and interest free or very low interest loans (a year)  because I was so "poor".  $10,000 of that is free money in grants and work-study.  I'd rather have school loan debt than credit card debt.

I also got a job at the school that works around my class schedule so I'm still able to work close to full time.  Damn lucky.

And I don't have a girlfriend, which saves probably hundreds of dollars a month. 

Pikashroom said:

man if i were poor i would find a small plot of land, grow a few lbs of weed, sell, repeat

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Desiree said:

My suggestion would be to get roomates, if you can deal with them. You can split the bills and save money.

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Colbadol said:

that's awesome Oracle. I was gonna post, but you pretty much summed what i was going to say.
being poor really gives you a perspective on society and an appreciation for little things which many people dont seem to have.

People who are poor just dont pay for car insurance and sweat bullets when a cop drives behind them. they also dont have ANY medical insurance. So, it's livin on the edge...if something goes all wrong, youre fucked!
I've never made over 10 dollars an hour. ever. but then again, i have one year left of school. We'll see after this. My household consists of my two brothers, myself, and my mom who sustains us all working as a receptionist at a hospital for like 12-14/hr. Child support comes if we're lucky. We just got used to it. Food is first-come first-serve. All of my friends know me as a super-crazy bottom-less pit food eater because i eat like a camel drinks. Even if im not hungry, i know that ill be starvinig later. When my mom tried to move to arizona by her self and us we were fucking eating spices one night.

but if you do adapt your lifestyle to be able to sustain and even save when poor (eating bread, for instance), you realize how much more resourceful and capable you are than other people around you.

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jonnywax said:

Why is money a ridiculous concept? It's a great middleman for goods exchange.

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ZoooftheMoon said:

jonnywax said:

Why is money a ridiculous concept? It's a great middleman for goods exchange.

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In a perfect world money would be obsolete.

Everyone would live equally, everyone helping support each other.

Why the need for this paper currency?

So the rich can get richer and the poor getting poorer?

Of course this idea is equally ridiculous, but more than possible.

the only sacrifice for this to happen? Throwing selfishness and greed out the window.

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breakableweed said:

Selfishness is a part of life - deal with it. What is mine is mine. People will always feel that way. And then they will say, well, I would give up what is mine for the proper price. Thus, money.

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I deal with it just fine, I'm just as selfish as the average north american

I was speaking hypothetically.  That's what it would take.

To buddy who said motivation

...i don't think you seem to understand the huge scale of change that I'm hypothetically suggesting.

It would work somewhat like a secluded tribe in the amazon, just on a bigger scale and with technology.

Materialism =

This isn't the world we live in though and change such as this will never happen...people are either A. sheep or B. selfish or C. both

Money makes the world go around and I'm gonna do my best to play the game and make as much as I can while being happy...which is equally as ridiculous