Tag: poor
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Being Poor
I have been very poor by US standards. I continue to believe that it was never that bad. I lived on peanut butter and jelly sandwiches on day old bread for several years. But I was never in any danger of actually starving. I had a very cheap apartment but was never homeless until the…
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Middle Class
As I’ve written before a very long time ago a well meaning professor told the class I was in that a bachelors degree was a guaranteed position in the middle class for the rest of our lives. That to my ears was a tremendously crappy promise. Middle income earners in the US do most of…
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Wealth Inequality
Political Rant (you have been warned): Last week the stock market lost something like a trillion dollars in value. Many rich people who are usually preaching to me about the gap between the rich and the poor were clutching their pearls because the gap narrowed and it happened to be their wealth that was more…
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I Don’t Gamble
What would you do if you won the lottery? If someone else bought me a lottery ticket against my wishes and it was a winner I would make sure the taxes on it got paid and leave the rest to the buyer. Lotteries are a tax on the hope of the poor. People with little…
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Poverty Thinking
There is a very pervasive myth that poor people are better than rich people. The idea is that the poor are more generous, more honest, and more decent. Poverty is in this sense being praised. In Traditional Christianity this sentiment is overt. Rich people can’t enter heaven. Give everything you have away to feed the…
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Rich
What could you try for the first time? I have been poor or mostly poor all my life. By American standards that usually hasn’t been too bad. I’ve lived with food insecurity but have never been in danger of starving. I’ve missed rent a few times but never been homeless. And I’ve always had clothes…
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Well Fed
I am grateful today that I am well fed. I had an everything burger for lunch with an egg roll and fries on the side and a horchata to wash it down. Sometimes I even start to feel like I am not poor anymore. But I know it can all be taken away. I am…
Latter Day Sinner 