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What's something people should stop idolising/ romanticising? (lazysoci.al)
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[–] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Poverty. It's fucking shit. You live in constant fear, fear of not being able to eat, losing your home, and one breakage wiping you out for months or years. You live day to day or week to week, your life revolves around money and you might have to take shitty treatment from employers cos you don't have options. The poor really do pay more. There's a reason that it's called the poverty trap and not the poverty easily escapable zone.

[–] psyvibe@lemm.ee -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Can you share some examples of poverty being romanticized? What comes to my mind is how there seems to be a lot of emphasis and appreciation for folks who are able to escape it, but that doesn’t seem too bad to me. Stories about poverty don’t make me romanticize poverty, they make me appreciate what I have. I don’t disagree with what you said. Just looking for the connection.