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 😊

They are the 21st century dragons of myth. They horde wealth just to horde wealth. Smaag slept on a mountain of gold to cite popular culture, but the dragons of myth are much the same.

He’s more supervillain than hero. Livable minimum wage, not on my watch, unions, get ‘em outa here, workers rights and protections nu-uh.

Can you imagine going down in history as the rich guy who actually fixed so much of a broken country?

Unfortunately he's that rich because probably he is very greedy . . .

Comparing 1 bill/triilionaires net worth against poverty is like comparing 1 = PI ( neverending). What should happen is that the ultra 1% spread it around. ALL OF THEM!!! I dream.

Unfortunately, to accumulate all that loot, one would need to be rather LIKE him.

I just love it when these creepy rich guys (lottery winners have some of the same stories) guys think their young arm candy loves them for their good looks (I am being charitable when I say they truly lack in the "good looking" category! ) and personality. YUCK!

I genuinely have no idea why anyone wants that kind of money; if I came into millions (not even billions) of dollars, once I did responsible stuff like bought a comfortable house (not a big one, just a comfortable one), paid off my car and put some in savings, I'd be pouring funds into charities. What's the point in hoarding money you're never going to use?

And his ex IS doing great philanthropic work. Smart Lady

Don't agree. Fixing issues in society is government's job. Not of private people. At the most , make laws to raise taxes on wealthy and use it for resolving problems in the society. It's irresponsible and somewhat dangerous to relieve the government of it's responsibility.

You can even start taking his employees a bit more I'm charging a bit less on Amazon.

... that's what winning at capitalism *is*..... Maybe not the very best, fairest game for a whole country to be playing...

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His ex wife is squandering millions on catering to criminals and other garbage

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 🥵