so when they talk about how they are living in poverty, it's like, motherfucker, no you aren't
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Replying to @tegiminis @arthur_affect
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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Replying to @arthur_affect
yeah. and the poor don't get that option. they live without things because ~they have to~
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Replying to @tegiminis
sure, but saying the existence of "tiny houses" is inherently appropriation conflates those two different things
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Replying to @arthur_affect
while true the article does make a point to distinguish between actual low-income living and glamoured low income living
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yeah but it's messed up to argue it's wrong for wealthy people to choose to live below their means
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it's not like wealthy people who choose the opposite, conspicuous consumption, are more virtuous
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oh for sure, i wouldn't shame a wealthy person for living below their means in general
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I live in a cheaper place than I could theoretically afford bc I don't feel like I need the space or the location
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Replying to @arthur_affect @tegiminis
I live around a lot of ppl who probably have less than I do, but I don't say that this makes me understand them
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yeah i mean you seem cool. but you're also not really like the gentrifying shitheads i encounter near daily
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