50 Painfully True Posts And Jokes About Being Poor

Brilliantly put. Well done.

His ex-wife divorced him for (obviously amongst other things) very similar reasons 😊

YES! 👏🏻👏🏽👏🏿

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Hahahaha!

Are you hiring?

Oh I thought the climate change floods would take care of that! Phew!

Just heart breaking. I am so sorry for your loss

Not all Americans :( but way too many

In Canada we pay for prescriptions, but my antidepressants are $18 a month. I meet with my doctor once a month. My employer pays for my twice-a-week counselling appointments through my employee benefit plan. My total bill for mental health care is $18 a month. I wish everyone could have it this easy :( we all deserve good health care.

Yes, exactly! I wish everyone could be more open about money.

My 18 year old son in a night owl. He's looking for a night job after he graduates. He would looooove this s**t. Edit. I asked him. He's 100% on board. 😂😂

I'm applying for entry level jobs with 13 years experience...but I have "too much" experience? Hurumph

True. Might as well try to get some happiness

*scribbles notes down*

Reading is honestly so beneficial :) those people that type things like “should of” instead of “should have” is often an indication that they haven’t read a lot of books. People who spell words correctly but pronounce them incorrectly is usually a sign that they learned that word from a book first :) scammers these days are actually relying on mildly illiterate people to not be able to notice small spelling errors in their emails or text messages that would give the scammer away….and those poor folks with a low literacy level tend to fall for scams at a much higher rate :( it’s really uncool

I started renting my apartment 5 years ago at just over $700/month. They can only raise my yearly rent at inflation rates as per my contract so I’m currently paying just over $800. The exact identical apartment across the hall from me just got rented out for $1490. Most of my neighbours are paying $1200 or more. For an identical apartment to mine. I’m so lucky but also very annoyed on their behalf. Eventually the strata will find a way to charge me $1200+ but for now I’m lucky as hell.

Remember the border bill the US GOP begged for…..then voted against it and shut it down because they were scared it might make their political opponent in the upcoming election look good? 🙄 sounds like a party that truly cares about the people and country and not their own personal career interests at all.

Honestly my dream job would be flipping burgers for $350,000 a year. I’d be the chillest burger flipper.

Brakes on this beater are optional

Very good point!

Vote out Republicans in the US and it could happen!

Rich people sadly don’t have to play by the same rules as us mere peasants :(

As long as they have the people locked into crippling debt, what else matters? The rich get richer and the poor get f**ked over every time. Think for a minute that maybe a bright, disadvantaged kid of had the inkling of the cure for cancer but couldn't get a scholarship because of their gender, disability, colour or religion? The crushing debt applied by institutions of higher learning and government is quite happy to forgo humanity saving intelligence, because there is no money in it for them.

This should be higher.

Oh gosh - you noticed? Whoops! Its a freakin' goldmine for the very few.

I wish I made enough to care about that

Good point! NZ citizens probably weren’t as scared of their government offering social welfare as some other certain countries though, so it wasn’t a big scary deal to them to receive benefits. I bet it helped them out so much during covid.

Chemist in OZ, they're something like a 2 pack for $10 (so more like 2 for $6US)

So relatable 😂 sitting here on my secondhand iPhone 13 watching movies on my (thrift store) big screen tv on my (thrift store) memory foam mattress cover and 4 walls around me and a roof over my head….but kinda hungry 😅

Is water not a human right?

Honestly. I donated $1 to some charity at McDonalds and then got mad at myself - companies are just words on paper but humans are real, why can’t the humans that run McDonalds use their massive profits to help other humans out? Solve some hunger issues they probably helped cause or something?

Sold

For real though 🥵

And yet ....

Old people have been calling young people lazy since the beginning of time. I’m only 31 but I’m sure when I’m 50 or 60 I’ll think the younger generation is lazier than me too.

I had a college math professor that would teach you how to do the math after the assignment. He would give the homework with no instruction. have us turn it in, then teach how to do it. Then, he would grade you to see if you had figured it out on your own and the grade would stand. I dropped that class after 2 weeks.

For real though 😂😂

How I wish we could count pets as dependents!

I accept that Pharmacy/OTC medications can be quite expensive. But WTF costs $83K+? A large bottle of invincibility & immortality?

Ask her if she found the Jewish space lasers yet 🤡

I’d be enraged 😂 if you’re going to steal my card at least leave those poor underpaid workers a fat tip

Communists! Or socialists or whatever is more scary! Aaaah!

But well done for making £25 last two years, that's quite impressive.

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1 bedroom apartment in 2003 cost us 480 a month. That same rental today goes for 1200 a month.

What a revolting revaluation. Seriously, you guys have to stop voting in obscenely wealthy men on the brink of life support for President. They have too much distance and protection from the realities of life.

Taxes create the fiscal space for governments to spend without driving inflation. They are not needed to "pay for" stuff, the government just credits accounts for that, just as taxation involves debiting accounts. The two are not directly connected under a fiat currency. Nice study here about UK government finances that explains this in great detail: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/public-purpose/sites/bartlett_public_purpose/files/the_self-financing_state_an_institutional_analysis_of_government_expenditure_revenue_collection_and_debt_issuance_operations_in_the_united_kingdom.pdf

Many states require a Masters to teach. 45K a year is what a teacher makes after working several years in most of those states!

I casually bought McDonalds for lunch 3 days in a row and then got mad that *someone* spent $50 on McDonalds that week 😝 small shît adds up fast!