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post 1561393181 09-16-2018, 06:27 AM
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The ironic thing about poverty in US is that people who are poor tend to be overweight/obese. You don't find that relationship anywhere else in the world ( at least not in other countries where poverty is rampant).
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Originally Posted By thunderykoala⏩
There's always been poor people, from dinosaurs to.. now.
It must have sucked being poor with all them damn dinosaurs around. How many poor people do you think got eaten by dinosaurs?
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Originally Posted By Furybox⏩
Anyway, being poor is relative. Unless you go full socialism, there's always going to be "poor". ..
Full Socialism...

Ah no! Then we all, except those in charge, will be poor and miserable.

It's called spread the misery around.
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Originally Posted By scudda⏩
Not from america, but doesnt your country provide things like welfare? food and health insurance for people who are jobless? And centers that help you look for a job? Fukin lol @ all the opportunities that are given to you guys and still complain about this and that. In other countries you would be left for dead on the streets.
This guy gets it.


Thank you for stating this.
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post 1561394421 09-16-2018, 07:11 AM
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Originally Posted By Vhagar⏩
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Yeah it sucks there, but when you have no job skills you best take what you can get. Also, you don't get a car, cellphone, internet, TV's. Those are luxury goods for people with the means to pay for them. Not sure when all of that became a basic human right.

If you're poor, you ride the bus, bike, or walk to work, and you head on down to the local library if you need to use some internet
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Originally Posted By Shortfuze⏩
The ironic thing about poverty in US is that people who are poor tend to be overweight/obese. You don't find that relationship anywhere else in the world ( at least not in other countries where poverty is rampant).
Because junk food is cheap. A 2000 calorie bag of donuts is $1, an ounce of basil is $2.75.
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Originally Posted By Godfrd824⏩
Your posts are usually retarded, but this is next level. So you're saying in Williston, ND, where there is no public transportation, not to get a car because that's a luxury. You're saying not to get a cell phone, which is a means of communication, because that's a luxury, or internet, because that's a luxury. So tell us genius, how will she;

A. Apply for the job, as Walmart only accepts online applications.
B. Get a call for an interview, as I doubt Walmart or anyone is sending out letters to schedule interviews.
C. Drive to the Walmart, as like I said, there's no public transportation.

The education system has failed you.
You've clearly never been to Williston ND. You could bicycle across that town in a few minutes. The reason the McDonalds were paying $15/hour was because it was/is an oilfield boom town. What does that mean? Anyone that can tie their own shoes could make $100K/year. Last i heard they were paying people $30-40/hr just to change tires on trucks.

A) You can get internet access anywhere for free these days almost anywhere in the USA
B) You can get a $15 phone from Walmart and use google voice for free
C) Walk/bike

I remember having a long conversation with a black dude once on and oilfield site. He said he told all his friends about how easy it was to get a job for a frac company and that they'd all make easy 100K/year. He said none of them wanted to get out of their bubble where they grew up and made all kinds of excuses about getting dirty/weather/location. Yet, they would constantly whine about being broke. In all fairness, that's the mindset of a lot of poor & victimhood mentality people of any ethnicity. I've exhibited that myself in that i refused to travel to some of the utmost chitholes (like India) for oilfield work. Meanwhile, the Chinese (actual Chinese citizens) guys we had (super hard workers) traveled anywhere and everywhere & busted their arse all the time.

So ya... most people that whine about not making money simply aren't trying hard enough. This is absolutely the case for anyone living in the USA. Chit... you could make a living dumpster diving and reselling stuff on ebay/craigslist.
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Originally Posted By Godfrd824⏩
Because junk food is cheap. A 2000 calorie bag of donuts is $1, an ounce of basil is $2.75.
Junk food is not cheaper. Rice, oatmeal, eggs are all extremely cheap.
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Originally Posted By GaryRidgway⏩
Junk food is not cheaper. Rice, oatmeal, eggs are all extremely cheap.
but dey don't go good with self medicating w/ food cause they don't taste as good as a donuts, and junk food
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Originally Posted By GaryRidgway⏩
Junk food is not cheaper. Rice, oatmeal, eggs are all extremely cheap.
This. Another example of people with little money not knowing how to spend it. I could make a weeks supply of healthy shakes for the cost of 1 take away session. You can't make lazy people active if they don't choose to be, therefore not everyone deserves success or a comfortable lifestyle.
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Originally Posted By GaryRidgway⏩
Junk food is not cheaper. Rice, oatmeal, eggs are all extremely cheap.
Meal from fast food with soda- $7.50

2 pounds of chicken and water- $7.50
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Originally Posted By TacticalTaco⏩
Meal from fast food with soda- $7.50

2 pounds of chicken and water- $7.50
So you proved that healthy food is cheap?

I’m not sure what side you’re on lol
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Originally Posted By hotsaucebrah⏩
What are you going to do in 10 to 20 years when your job is automated?
The 800 pound gorilla in the room.

The woman in the OP is retarded for sure, but let's not pretend that there's just magic jobs growing on a money tree for anyone who wants one, and people are unemployed because they're too lazy to pick one. There but for the grace of God go i.
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Originally Posted By OLawdQuan⏩
- 3 babies, no daddies, $1.2k a month salary, 20-30 hour work week, no education, diabetes

And not one of these problems is her own damn fault.
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Originally Posted By al****orilla⏩
So you proved that healthy food is cheap?

I’m not sure what side you’re on lol
That was my point lolz.
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Originally Posted By scudda⏩
Not from america, but doesnt your country provide things like welfare? food and health insurance for people who are jobless? And centers that help you look for a job? Fukin lol @ all the opportunities that are given to you guys and still complain about this and that. In other countries you would be left for dead on the streets.
America is filled with lazy degenerates. It's part of the reason why I don't want kids.
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Originally Posted By faxanadu⏩
You've clearly never been to Williston ND. You could bicycle across that town in a few minutes. The reason the McDonalds were paying $15/hour was because it was/is an oilfield boom town. What does that mean? Anyone that can tie their own shoes could make $100K/year. Last i heard they were paying people $30-40/hr just to change tires on trucks.

A) You can get internet access anywhere for free these days almost anywhere in the USA
B) You can get a $15 phone from Walmart and use google voice for free
C) Walk/bike

I remember having a long conversation with a black dude once on and oilfield site. He said he told all his friends about how easy it was to get a job for a frac company and that they'd all make easy 100K/year. He said none of them wanted to get out of their bubble where they grew up and made all kinds of excuses about getting dirty/weather/location. Yet, they would constantly whine about being broke. In all fairness, that's the mindset of a lot of poor & victimhood mentality people of any ethnicity. I've exhibited that myself in that i refused to travel to some of the utmost chitholes (like India) for oilfield work. Meanwhile, the Chinese (actual Chinese citizens) guys we had (super hard workers) traveled anywhere and everywhere & busted their arse all the time.

So ya... most people that whine about not making money simply aren't trying hard enough. This is absolutely the case for anyone living in the USA. Chit... you could make a living dumpster diving and reselling stuff on ebay/craigslist.
I didn't say any of this wasn't true, my point is, internet is a necessity, and so is a phone, IDK about anywhere in ND, but a quick Google maps search confirmed my suspicion, there's no public transportation. Let's not even get started on the fact that you actually need money to relocate.
Originally Posted By GaryRidgway⏩
Junk food is not cheaper. Rice, oatmeal, eggs are all extremely cheap.
Scurvy isn't cheap, all that junk food is fortified, rice and raw oats are not. It's not as simple as that.
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Originally Posted By Shortfuze⏩
The ironic thing about poverty in US is that people who are poor tend to be overweight/obese. You don't find that relationship anywhere else in the world ( at least not in other countries where poverty is rampant).
you literally have to choose to be poor to be poor in America

50% of poverty would be eliminated by people getting off their asses
and the other 50% by relocating
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If you live in the United States of America you should not be poor because you have EVERY single opportunity to become a success. There are no if, ands, or buts. Oh well, not my fault if you are a loser who gives up.
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Originally Posted By hotsaucebrah⏩
That's cool. Doesn't answer my question though, the naivety and ignorance of people that think automation and AI will only replace low age jobs is pretty scary.
you realize that with your exceptional ability to predict the economic conditions of the future, putting your money where your mouth is will make you extremely wealthy.
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Originally Posted By HoustonMiscer⏩
the reality of life is that there must be balance. there must be the rich and there must also be the poor. she wouldn't be saying this if she were rich
nope, not true at all. you can have someone be rich without someone being poor in return. see: every tech millionaire. they became rich through providing new technology, not robbing others.

but vanessa and her ilk need to be stopped. she should not have gotten to 3 kids on 10/hr and being single.
where is/are the dudes who impregnated her? why arent they paying?

i say 1 hour a month in hs, we show kids how they will ruin lives if theyre having kids out of wedlock with no means of supporting them.

i realize shyt happens, but this is an epidemic.
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>Globalism
>No one in YOUR nation is poor

Pick one.
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Originally Posted By rectifryer⏩
>Globalism
>No one in YOUR nation is poor

Pick one.
this is the dumbest logic ever.

Do you make everything yourself? Do you grow your own food? Build your own house? Create your own electricity?
Do you have a trade deficit with the grocery store? With the power company?
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Originally Posted By LeJR⏩
this is the dumbest logic ever.

Do you make everything yourself? Do you grow your own food? Build your own house? Create your own electricity?
Do you have a trade deficit with the grocery store? With the power company?
Yeah? It's the dumbest? How about that time when you didn't relate any of the random statements you made with the quote you were rebutting?

I'd answer your questions but they're largely irrelevant. But yeah, I did build my own house. I have worked on a farm. I do have local electricity.

However, what's different between you and I is that I understandscalewhich actually perfectly ties back into the quote you made of my statement.

ayyy lmao
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Originally Posted By Godfrd824⏩
Because junk food is cheap. A 2000 calorie bag of donuts is $1, an ounce of basil is $2.75.
and a bag of chicken breasts is 15 dollars with 30 breasts. you just have to resist not eating donuts for 25 minutes while it bakes.

junk food aint cheap anymore.
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Originally Posted By faxanadu⏩
You've clearly never been to Williston ND. You could bicycle across that town in a few minutes. The reason the McDonalds were paying $15/hour was because it was/is an oilfield boom town. What does that mean? Anyone that can tie their own shoes could make $100K/year. Last i heard they were paying people $30-40/hr just to change tires on trucks.

A) You can get internet access anywhere for free these days almost anywhere in the USA
B) You can get a $15 phone from Walmart and use google voice for free
C) Walk/bike

I remember having a long conversation with a black dude once on and oilfield site. He said he told all his friends about how easy it was to get a job for a frac company and that they'd all make easy 100K/year. He said none of them wanted to get out of their bubble where they grew up and made all kinds of excuses about getting dirty/weather/location. Yet, they would constantly whine about being broke. In all fairness, that's the mindset of a lot of poor & victimhood mentality people of any ethnicity. I've exhibited that myself in that i refused to travel to some of the utmost chitholes (like India) for oilfield work. Meanwhile, the Chinese (actual Chinese citizens) guys we had (super hard workers) traveled anywhere and everywhere & busted their arse all the time.

So ya... most people that whine about not making money simply aren't trying hard enough. This is absolutely the case for anyone living in the USA. Chit... you could make a living dumpster diving and reselling stuff on ebay/craigslist.
Originally Posted By GaryRidgway⏩
Junk food is not cheaper. Rice, oatmeal, eggs are all extremely cheap.
Originally Posted By PatheticPeter⏩
and a bag of chicken breasts is 15 dollars with 30 breasts. you just have to resist not eating donuts for 25 minutes while it bakes.

junk food aint cheap anymore.
Son, I could live off $15 for a week if we're talking strictly 2k calories a day of junk food. How are you cooking this chicken, getting to the store, seasoning? That chicken needs refrigeration too. Having actually been poor, I can tell you, if poor people could eat chicken breast everyday, they wouldn't be eating easy mac and ramen noodles 3 times a day. Don't believe me, try it for a week. Go out with $50, and see what you can cook and how many times, don't use any seasonings you already have either, poor people can't afford saffron.

Also, a pound of chicken breast costs $3 where I live, and that's cheap.
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Originally Posted By rectifryer⏩
Yeah? It's the dumbest? How about that time when you didn't relate any of the random statements you made with the quote you were rebutting?

I'd answer your questions but they're largely irrelevant. But yeah, I did build my own house. I have worked on a farm. I do have local electricity.

However, what's different between you and I is that I understandscalewhich actually perfectly ties back into the quote you made of my statement.

ayyy lmao
You really don't understand anything at all. The point that you think those statements are random, demonstrates your knowledge.

You are not actively doing every single task at the same time. You are not producing your own electricity. Someone else is producing that "local" electricity. And you are trading with them. That is the point.

Are you tallying your trade deficit with Ford? With McDonalds?

Should every single state produce everything themselves? Should the supply chain for every single corporation be limited to the town they are headquartered in ? Should they be only be allowed to operate and sell to customers in their own state? or is their county? Or city?

> Trade Between States
> Nobody poor in YOUR state
- pick one

> Trade Between Cities
> Nobody poor in YOUR city
- pick one

- apparently the "scale" only applies to the arbitrary borders and happenstance of territory that happens to be "your country"

Riddle me This. Is Trade a zero sum game?
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Originally Posted By LeJR⏩
You really don't understand anything at all. The point that you think those statements are random, demonstrates your knowledge.

You are not actively doing every single task at the same time. You are not producing your own electricity. Someone else is producing that "local" electricity. And you are trading with them. That is the point.

Are you tallying your trade deficit with Ford? With McDonalds?

Should every single state produce everything themselves? Should the supply chain for every single corporation be limited to the town they are headquartered in ? Should they be only be allowed to operate and sell to customers in their own state? or is their county? Or city?

> Trade Between States
> Nobody poor in YOUR state
- pick one

> Trade Between Cities
> Nobody poor in YOUR city
- pick one

-apparently the "scale" only applies to the arbitrary borders and happenstance of territory that happens to be "your country"

Riddle me This. Is Trade a zero sum game?
Ah I see you are 100% a troll. Borders serve no economic purpose in your mind. This is worse than I originally thought.

The fact of the matter is that you clearly did not nor do you understand the role scale plays in economics. You think the national level of regulation is the same as all others.

Have fun being that retarded in life. Just know that you'd find sustaining yourself in any economic system challenging.
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Originally Posted By Peter
Bingo. I was talking with my 29 year old Uber driver who came here from India 8 years ago. Learned English, became a citizen, stated school for computer science and drives Uber during his free time to pay his bills.

He talked about how much he loves America and the opportunity it provides him with school and work.

Meanwhile there are people that have lived here their entire lives that will be on welfare until they die. Pathetic losers.
I used to work at my school's chemistry department and had office hours for organic chemistry help - I had a huge amount of Syrian and Iraqi students that had come over with their families with absolutely nothing, and they absolutely work their asses off to make it when they have every reason to complain about how hard life is. Quite a few of them have now made it into medical or pharmacy schools and are crushing it. The best part is they LOVE America and constantly talk about how grateful and lucky they are to be where they are.

Then you've got people like the one in the OP...
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IMO.

All forms of contraception should be 100% state funded and available to any and all.

Then these people wouldn't breed and expect help (or at least it could be cut down).
All about that. Honestly don't know how anyone could logically argue against it from a saving money stand point.
Originally Posted By JT11RTR⏩
People are not created equal. Some are more intelligent. Some are more athletic. Some make very poor decisions with their lives. Why should the rest of the country subsidize those who make terrible life decisions? In most cases they show no sign of changing their behaviors and would be a bad investment.
Well you started off well. Yes, we don't all have equal abilities. And I wouldn't argue that we should all have equal outcomes.

Many people are in a bad situation because they made bad choices. Can you say that they are completely responsible for those bad choices and that they weren't at least influenced by their upbringing, physical condition, or mental issues?

And some people were trying to do everything right; or at least as right as they were capable of. People still get wiped out by major medical problems, being divorced/widowed, loss of a business or job. Stuff happens.

The lady in the article definitely brought a lot of her difficulties on herself. But her children are affected too. And if she didn't have children and was working full time are we going to pretend that $1600 a month is making it?

I don't think that you can fix a problem by just throwing money at it. Doesn't mean that there isn't a problem or that the wage scale isn't out of whack.
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