Everytime I see depictions of “normal” households in TV/Movies/ the house always look extra clean and their belongings are new.
And everytime I see depictions of poverty, its always a house that’s filled with junk, computers are like a decade old, no food in fridge, either no car or car is barely functional.
Well, I know the media always exaggerates things, but if I had to use the media as a reference, I feel like my childhood has been closer to the poverty depiction and also life felt so “ghetto” for me (for lack of a better word). Most of the furnature was just donated by relatives or my parents picked them up from the sidewalk that somebody threw out. I had a very shitty laptop, I had no phone for a majority of highschool and therefore not have friends, house is so filled with junk and messy because frugal parents love hoarding things that they never use. Didn’t even have access to a car (in a car-centric neighborhood btw) because my parents didn’t have one until like I was in highschool, and even then it was like very shitty and the AC didn’t work (that car has since been replaced).
Also my parents never got me any toys or entertainment, I only had a shitty laptop to pirate everything. I have never, and still have not, ever watched a movie in a movie theater (which I heard was supposedly something everyone have experienced?) like every movie I’ve ever watched (pirated) is either from the 15.6 inch 1336 x 768 resolution display on the laptop that I had, or from the phones that I later got varying from the 1080 x 720 resolution 5 inch display, to the later phone with 5.5 inch 1920 x 1080 display.
My life is like 70% accurate to the sterotypical depiction of poverty except the empty fridge part, so I guess I lucked out on that.
I’m assuming this is just the standard working class childhood experience?
So you had a car (with faulty AC, WHAT A TRAGEDY!), a laptop, regularly updating smartphones and a house.
I suppose you just have overly-high expectations from life. Your situation isn’t “poverty”. Even by 1st world country standards.
Did you think this inspirational comment would bring a ray of sunshine to their day?
Perhaps, let them know that things are better than they think and that they’ll look at the life ahead with renewed optimism?
Telling people that living comfortably and being able to have the things their neighbors have is an unrealistic expectation is what has allowed the wage gap to grow over the decades. Don’t expect more, just be a slave to your job, and appreciate that you can eat, even if it’s Ramen 4 times a week.
Looking through their post history, they don’t seem very concerned with being inspirational. Mostly being antagonistic, and racist of about romani people.
Sometimes people don’t know they’re being a dick until you tell them. If they keep it up after that, you know that’s exactly what they were going for.
Oh sorry, didn’t meant for it as a complaint. Was just sharing life stories. 😅
Completely off topic… I saw a comedian in Arizona (USA) who said that his family was so poor that the family car didn’t have air conditioning installed. They didn’t want anybody to know that they were poor, so they would drive around with the windows rolled up.
Keep playing poverty olympics with your fellow working class while the billionaires hoard another billion