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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
this is the kind of thing that makes this whole topic hard to think about and relate to, for me. like i think i a little bit get it. it is obscene. not just a little obscene. really obscene. i could see someone reading this thread and fucking hating my guts
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@aburisotto
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Replying to @aburisotto and @QiaochuYuan
what I’m saying is: if someone gave me $100,000 right now (age 31), it would change my life, and I am not “poor” by any reasonable definition. it’s a little obscene seeing someone treat that amount as having primarily emotional significance.
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
money is literally life and death and for me to just be like "uwu but i have feelings about my parents" is... i get it, okay, it's not uh. not ideal. but it's also the actual situation i'm in right now and nobody benefits from me pretending otherwise
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
it's incredibly fucked up that i could change the lives of like a dozen people if i gave this money away. someone posted a gofundme on here awhile back and i donated $400 anonymously and it maybe lowkey changed their lives and i didn't feel the loss at all. that's retarded
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
i literally have no idea how to relate to that at all. it gets tied up with all this bullshit i soaked up from the effective altruists about the "best" way to donate money. i have no idea what to do with it other than to keep staying alive myself
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Chaos
@chaosprime
not the first time i've seen the way a money spigot can wreck somebody's shit. the problems involved are real and the way everybody who doesn't have enough money thinks they'd like your problems better and hates you for having what they lack doesn't make them otherwise
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@chaosprime
i think you should seriously consider trying to get your parents to meaningfully tighten the money supply in a way that makes it feel real to you that you need to provide for yourself, or you may wind up crashing and burning in order to alienate them enough to make that happen
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