wait how the shit does anyone ever acquire or get rid of a refrigerator? they look both too heavy to carry and potentially too large to fit through doors???
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I like to follow you because it is a glimpse around the corner of class structure
Your thought would never occur to me, because I have squatted in an empty apartment I had to furnish, appliance by appliance, with my own sweat and labor
You have never moved a refrigerator before
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I don’t mean for this to sound insulting, bc I really appreciate your openness and I find it valuable when you share your perspective
But wow, poverty and riches give people very different understandings of the world and how it works
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When I was a homeless kid if I was hungry enough I could find some Mexicans loitering on the border of the warehouse district and downtown of whatever city I was in, and sell my labor for cash that day. We moved heavy shit, or cut fields of weeds, or tore down walls.
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This gives everyone in the lower classes a direct, abrupt, and gritty connection to the world around them.
Rich kids are aloof by comparison.
Things get done, or changed, in your environment, but it’s done for you.
Poor kids do it, or it doesn’t get done.
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I’m not poor now, but I grew up poor, so I measure the possibility of moving a refrigerator by my own hands. I have used dollies and levers and improvised cranes to move heavy shit, so I see the world through my own manual labor.
Its fascinating to me that you don’t have that.
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yea tbf i grew up not super poor (had consistent, non-leaky roof over our heads in low-middle class neighborhood) but kinda poor (got close to going hungry sometimes, decorated a potted plant instead of having a christmas tree), and I never had to do any of that type of moving
I get that. Maybe its ableist of me to frame it this way, but my experience of rich and poor often revolves around my labor
When I'm rich, I have things done for me, but when I'm poor, I have to do it myself, or it doesn't get done
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