Average white person (not you, but the person you don't want to be, I fully agree with you)

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anonymous 3 weeks ago

I work with so many dipshits like this and they look at me like I'm a freak for not being like them.

They cry of their relationship woes when they are self centered and don't communicate. Complain of how bad they feel and see no correlation to their eating and alcohol habits. Talk about feeling old (see my previous sentence) and then bitch about never having any money while they live a lifestyle that I would consider to be pretty lavish. They are responsible for damn near everything wrong in their lives. Slackers.

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anonymous 3 weeks ago

beautifully written

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anonymous 9 hours ago

Listen up, buddy. You sound like a self-entitled twat who thinks he's got all the answers. Let's tear apart your little list of "success tips" and point out how full of shit you are.

First off, you assume that drinking is the devil. Newsflash: moderation exists. Some of the most successful people in the world enjoy a drink or two. But hey, keep judging others for their personal choices, you sanctimonious prick.

Takeout? Really? You think everyone can cook gourmet meals at home every day? Some people don't have the time, skills, or resources. And who are you to say what makes someone "feel like shit"? Maybe their takeout is their one indulgence in a stressful week. But no, you're too busy being a food police officer.

Sex? You're obsessing over people's sex lives like a middle schooler. Some people have healthy, consensual sex lives and it doesn't affect their careers or readiness for offspring. But you're too busy being a sex shamer to see that.

Tattoos? Oh, the horror of self-expression! You assume that all tattoos are "trashy" and that everyone with ink is "bad with decisions." Newsflash: many successful people have tattoos. But you're too busy being a judgmental ass to see that.

And let's talk about your investment advice. Crypto and sports betting are "retarded," but the stock market is the be-all and end-all? You do realize that the stock market can be just as risky, right? But no, you're too busy being a financial guru to admit that.

You're full of assumptions and lack any empathy for people's different lifestyles and choices. You think you're helping, but really, you're just being a judgmental prick. So, how about you take your own advice and "invest" in some self-awareness and empathy? Maybe then you won't sound like such a self-entitled twat.

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anonymous 7 hours ago

For parents raising their kids in poverty, having to say “no” was a part of daily life. Their financial circumstances forced them to deny their children’s requests — for a new pair of Nikes, say, or a trip to Disneyland — all the time. This wasn’t tough for the kids alone; it also left the poor parents feeling guilty and inadequate.

Next to all the things poor parents truly couldn’t afford, junk food was something they could often say “yes” to. Poor parents told me they could almost always scrounge up a dollar to buy their kids a can of soda or a bag of chips. So when poor parents could afford to oblige such requests, they did.

Honoring requests for junk food allowed poor parents to show their children that they loved them, heard them and could meet their needs. As one low-income single mother told me: “They want it, they’ll get it. One day they’ll know. They’ll know I love them, and that’s all that matters.”

Junk food purchases not only brought smiles to kids’ faces, but also gave parents something equally vital: a sense of worth and competence as parents in an environment where those feelings were constantly jeopardized.

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anonymous 7 hours ago

Poor parents honored their kids’ junk food requests to nourish them emotionally, not to harm their health. Similarly, wealthy parents who denied their kids processed foods did so to teach them healthful lifelong habits, not to deprive them.

Nutritional inequality in the U.S. has more to do with people’s socioeconomic status than their geographic location. Living in poverty or affluence affects more than our access to healthful food: It shapes the very meanings we attach to food.

Tackling nutritional inequality will require more than putting supermarkets in low-income neighborhoods. These interventions won’t change what food means to the poor families I met.

But lifting them out of poverty could. If low-income parents had the resources to consistently meet their kids’ desires, maybe a bag of Doritos would be just a bag of Doritos, rather than a uniquely potent symbol of parental love and care.

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anonymous 7 hours ago

****://****.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/15l280r/why_do_people_still_spend_a_lot_on_eating_out/

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anonymous 7 hours ago

George Orwell wrote in The Road To Wigan Pier:

"The ordinary human being would sooner starve than live on brown bread and raw carrots. And the peculiar evil is this, that the less money you have, the less inclined you feel to spend it on wholesome food. A millionaire may enjoy breakfasting off orange juice and Ryvita biscuits; an unemployed man doesn’t... When you are unemployed, which is to say when you are underfed, harassed, bored and miserable, you don’t want to eat dull wholesome food. You want something a little bit “tasty"."

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anonymous 7 hours ago

While some people can really be irresponsible with their money some of the harsher comments on posts like these seem to be coming from people who don’t know what poverty really feels like. Sometimes you don’t cook because you work such long hours that you don’t have time to get groceries and prepare something. Many people are so deep into poverty induced depression that the small joy of eating something other than ramen noodles for every meal is the only thing to keep you going. And when you are deep in debt it can start to feel like it doesn’t make a difference to keep digging yourself deeper. It’s not a ‘smart decision’ but with the state of the economy (in the US at least) it’s a shame we can’t show more compassion.

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anonymous 7 hours ago

Eating out is immediately gratifying, and makes you feel like you’re part of society. Long term financial planning is lonely and scary. And for youngins in our current, odd, nefarious housing market economy where lousy houses in somewhat desirable houses cost half a million dollars, it may be what they need to feel like they can keep going.

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anonymous 7 hours ago

i want you to imagine eating NOTHING but cheap-ass ramen and canned foods 3x a day, every day for months on end. i know this is hard for middle-class people to understand but poor people deserve nice things too.

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anonymous 7 hours ago

THE FOOD PROGRAMS END NOW; NO MORE FOOD PROBLEMS. THE HEALTH PROGRAMS END NOW; NO MORE HEALTH. PROBLEMS. ALL PROBLEMS SOLVED BY GLORIOUS LEADER. PRAISE HIM

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anonymous 4 hours ago