• realitista@lemmus.org
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    22 days ago

    It seems you’ve never heard of unemployment. It’s a real thing and in many economies it can be above 10%

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          22 days ago

          Thanks. But tbf, I wasn’t forced into it one way or another. It’s my choice to live outdoors, carry water and use a small solar system for phone and small gadgets. I could get a job tomorrow and rent a place next month. But this is what I prefer at the moment and for any lack in my life, that is reasonable, I blame myself because there’s many things I could do to make my life better that cost nothing.

          I imagine, if you are in Bombay and have 3 children, that’s a completely different set of cards, but still there are so many things you can change. In most cases …

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            I imagine, if you are in Bombay and have 3 children, that’s a completely different set of cards, but still there are so many things you can change.

            Poverty begets poverty. Poor people are usually too concerned about the next meal to take time for big structural overhauls of their way of doing things.