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Aella
@Aella_Girl
I grew up low class, and expected my life to be hard - only I didn’t process it as “hard”; it was just how life *was.* I was going to have to spend the rest of my life doing minimum-wage physically-hard labor, and then getting pregnant. That was the plan, but more importantly-
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
I didn’t register this plan as a bad one, a sad one. It made the “I need to set aside my feelings and use my willpower” part of my brain very active, a dominant way of being. The pain in my legs from being on my feet all day was just the *way life was*. And I was grateful! -
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
I’d grown up reading stories throughout history and was intimately familiar with how new and different my current lifestyle was. I was happy I wasn’t working in coal mines, or under threat of war, and that there was no famine. I viewed it as a normal feature of human existence-
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
That you had to set aside your feelings and use willpower. This is the way everyone had to live in history, this was a default of existence - and anything more than this was luxury. I felt hyper aware of how unusual our state of civilization was, how luxurious my life was already
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
And this is why I feel a little confused when people get really angry at stuff like the minimum wage, or having to work two jobs and live in a shitty apartment. People are complaining at working conditions that I went through with actual gratitude.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
Replying to
@PinoGap
Right now the wealthiest 1% pay like... ~40% of total income tax revenue, despite making only like ~20% of income. They are absolutely paying muuuch more than people poorer than them. And ‘fair wages’ is weird - you don’t deserve more money than someone is willing to give you
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
Replying to
@PinoGap
Lol my worldview does not require a centralized authority to bring people out of the dirt, we can do it ourselves. In my ideal world, nobody would pay income tax, and the increased freedom would result in enough prosperity to reduce total poverty.
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