I get why this person is mad but if "spending less money than you have to" becomes "appropriation" we are fuckedhttps://twitter.com/originalspin/status/768153221810368512 …
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Replying to @arthur_affect
I normally defend ppl against the accusation of putting identity vs class but cmon "maintaining your level of consumption is woke"?
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Replying to @tegiminis @arthur_affect
the first is that living beneath your means is generally good. invest back into the community rather than buy new cars, etc
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Replying to @tegiminis @arthur_affect
but there's definitely this weird trend of glamorizing poverty, with the accompanying shitty thinkpieces
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Replying to @tegiminis @arthur_affect
it's appropriation when done in that way because people who are poor have to live this way to survive
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Replying to @tegiminis @arthur_affect
i mean, there's a whole turn of phrase about it: class tourism. people taking a "vacation to a lower social class"
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Replying to @tegiminis @arthur_affect
a rich person living in a small house can always go up to a larger house. they have the option of prosperity
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I get being pissed off about glamorizing it or making it a matter of virtue
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