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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Replying to @tegiminis
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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Replying to @tegiminis
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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Replying to @arthur_affect
yeah i mean you seem cool. but you're also not really like the gentrifying shitheads i encounter near daily
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Replying to @tegiminis
well when I think gentrification I think actually spending a lot of money but not looking like you're doing so
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like I'm not in an actual gentrifying area bc if it were gentrifying the rent would be steadily going up
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my mental model of gentrification is it's an area following the prescribed arc for the middle class of steadily building wealth
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Replying to @arthur_affect @tegiminis
you move into a low rent area when you're fresh out of college and poor and when you're 40 it's now trendy and you're rich
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that's an idealistic view of gentrification that is very not what i experience
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