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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but there's definitely this weird trend of glamorizing poverty, with the accompanying shitty thinkpieces
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it's appropriation when done in that way because people who are poor have to live this way to survive
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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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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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so when they talk about how they are living in poverty, it's like, motherfucker, no you aren't
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the notion that "i have less things so i can live freer" is so heavily rooted in financial security
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because the unspoken supposition is you can now use that money you spent on things for vacations or trips. how delightful!
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yeah. and the poor don't get that option. they live without things because ~they have to~
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sure, but saying the existence of "tiny houses" is inherently appropriation conflates those two different things
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while true the article does make a point to distinguish between actual low-income living and glamoured low income living
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anyway: i live in low income housing. i make less than 35k a year, for two people. by most measures, i'm poor
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