yes.

feelings are not love. the yare feelings. love is the actions you take.

it doesn’t exist. but i work for a company that does real work.

in my experience of higher ed, most people in it don’t want to be there. especially the students. they are only there by force of threat of being unemployable.

what educated intelligent hard working people don’t understand is most people aren’t like them. most people want to be dumb and lazy and find learning painful and miserable.

most democrats benefit from the status quo and that’s why they want it.

the democrat base is wealthy educated professionals who are making a killing in this economy. it’s not working-class people.

yes. it’s a popular view among the wealthy in particular.

i’ve met many people who have told me i should never have been born because my parents weren’t rich and I had to pay for my college education with loans and scholarships. they argued that people like me are a ‘drain’ and that i ‘stole’ my position uni from a more deserving rich person. they don’t believe in class mobility, just class punishment.

i live in boston area. every single person here is like this. they love the homeless, but if they have to see them in public the sudden they start talking about how they need to be ‘removed’ because it makes them feel uncomfortable.

same with schools, housing, healthcare. they support it, until it affects them. Then they are against it.

anf i you say you are for it, they call you evil and heartless and inconsiderate of ‘real people who work for a living’. because homeless people aren’t real people if they don’t have six figure office jobs.

rabies wouldn’t be something they ordinary test for.

according to OP we should apparently murder the homeless because nobody below a certain income level should be allowed to live or have kids. i’ve seen this argument before… mostly from people who had wealthy parents and feel like nobody should have kids unless their parents have millions in the bank to pave an easy life path for their children… just like theirs did.

psst, don’t let you understand of economic reality get in the way of someone’s irrational rage.

if community colleges had dorms they would rapidly become non-affordable. the reason they are affordable is they are so minimalist in terms of amenities and services.

and this is why so much ‘left’ policy fails… because it works from an idealism that has no material limits, and often causes the exacerbates the very issues it aims to solve. like being tolerant of homelessness and watching the homeless problem grow, rather than trying to address the material problem that causes homelessness. because the former is easy, and scores points with the left voter base… but eventually bites them in the ass when the liberal voters get pissed off at people shooting up drugs in front of their kids which they now have to witness. then suddenly pro-tolerance stance becomes ‘get these people off the streets’.

it’s not politically viable though. even liberal voters will revolt at this because it is ‘unfair’ or seem as rewarding laziness.

they can’t afford it and a college education no longer guarantees you a good wage outside of very specialized and difficult fields of study. also fewer and fewer people are prepared for college, as our secondary and primary education systems have gotten worse.

in the 1990s you could major in English from a cheap state school and walk off to a 40K job. You maybe had 5-10K in college debt. in the 2020s you major in English from a top tier school and you’re lucky to get a job that pays you 30K a year, if you can find one at all. Your debt is more like 20-40K. This is pretty much true of other majors as well, even basic technical ones.

Meanwhile the COL from the 90s has tripled or quadrupled. So your purchasing power is even effectively been dropped to like 1/6 of what it was in the 90s.

My no name company hires data entry workers for about 45K to start. We only hire people from top tier universities with specialized degrees, and we have an over abundance of applicants, that’s why we can be so picky. Our mid tier employes have to have Masters degrees from top 10 uni and are only making 50-60K to start. if you went to a state university we throw your resume in the trash.

it’s a city with a lot of money. but nobody shows it off the way they do in nyc/la. it’s very ‘modest’.

people with 50million in the bank drive a 30K prius and wear eddie bauer and agonizing over their property tax going up $500 as if it will bankrupt them.

poor people never could live in cities. because they have the stuff rich people want, and they push out the poor people.

and the people who live in impoverished neighborhoods in urban areas, also don’t have access to any of that.

because those things all require lots of money. where i live opera tickets are cheaper than going to see a local band in a bar. but both are going to be a minimum spend of 50-80 dollars.

who? the ultra religious/conservative types?

22-25 is way too young to be doing either of those things.

No, i’m telling you there are many well-off people who think anyone who isn’t as rich as them should not exist and view anyone the top 5% of incomes as subhuman scum.

those are the people that go to the cultural events, and they don’t want disgusting poor people near them.

ok, you should go down to a poor area and start lecturing those people how they should live their lives. see how they respond.

the poverty line isn’t about any of that.

it’s a financial threshold. it has says nothing about what people spend the money on, or don’t.

I never felt impoverished until rich people told me i shouldn’t be alive because my life doesn’t meet there inflated living standards.

Just like my 150K a year salary feels rich to me, and they tell me it’s shameful and a poverty wage.

What you don’t understand is that you don’t get to determine how other people live, or their living standards. They do.

You can feel bad for people like me for ‘suffering’, but what you don’t get is that to us it was never suffering. it was a normal life. If you think my life was impoverished, it’s likely because your own was so privledged. and to think anyone who doesn’t live their life by your standards is ‘less than’ you is pure arrogance.

depends on who you ask. depends on the size of the bedroom.

for a rich person, it would be a much higher threshold than for those who are poor. that’s all about ‘standards’ of living.

i grew up on canned/frozen foods, and yeah ate a shitload of mac and cheese and other horrible foods. i hate plenty of calories, even if they were unhealthy. but it’s what we could afford. i also only had cheap fall apart clothes. but i was never hungry, or cold. i didn’t shared a bedroom, but many of my friends did. like a lot of poor people, we spent more on certain things like clothes because we could not afford nicer things that lasted longer. but where i lived… everyone was like that so it wasn’t a big deal.

most of my peers where i live now, think i grew up in poverty, because they grew up much wealthier. i’ve been on first dates where the person lecture me how my parents were irresponsible to have me if they could not afford to pay for my college or buy me a new car at 16, etc. i usually laugh at their absurdly high standards, but to them it is a ‘bare minimum’ and anyone who doesn’t have those things shouldn’t exist.

for a family of 5 living in a 1 bedroom eating shitty food, any minor improvement would feel like a huge success. but waht rich people don’t get about poor people is they tend to appreciate that they aren’t homeless and starving, and don’t really have a concept of nicer/healthier food because it doesn’t exist in their social peer group. i never ate healthy food until i got to college because it was the first time in my life it was ever available to me. nobody in my rural working-class down ate that stuff, just like we didn’t go to live performances, own luxury cars, or a ton of other stuff.

the fact that you made this comparison tells me you are rich

I grew up in a rural area 2 hours city of the city, because it’s all we could afford. i had no culture into i got to college.

am i suppose to feel like i was therefore impoverished or something?

when you can’t pay for necessities. food, housing, clothing.

if you can afford these things. you aren’t in poverty.