69% of Gen Z respondents told Goldman Sachs they find it difficult to focus at work because they worry about debt or household costs, as did 67% of millennials.
Sorry that came off snippy. The fact that you aren’t homeless and have enough to eat that you dont have to consider a second job still says something about your economic state.
It’s arrogant because they can’t afford much at all and you’re talking past what they’re saying. Poverty is the condition of much of the working class. Having enough to eat and having a place to live doesn’t mean all that much when the content of your life is doing work as an anonymous drone and maybe being able to watch Netflix after you get home. Any medical emergency can uproot your already frail social existence. The worker is treated like cattle, who, as you should know, have housing and food aplenty. The latter two facts are not the core of the argument here.
This guy is saying there’s a huge spot of black mould on the wall and you’re derailing what they’re saying with a nonargument.
I’m 35 and have been poor my entire adult life yet have never even thought about a second job.
This is what they said. I myself am in the exact same position as the person above. Saying that they never thought about a second job is stating that they have not been forced to lose even more of the little time of their own they have to achieve the basics. If anything this original comment is demeaning by implying that it’s possible to survive on a single income, albeit minimally, and that anyone doing more is choosing that.
Then don’t assume I am being arrogant! My original question was an honest one. How does them stating they get by better in this situation help someone that doesn’t? You are assuming my tone.
Glad you can afford housing and food on one paycheck! How does that work for someone making $7.25 an hour though?
I never said I could afford anything.
Sorry that came off snippy. The fact that you aren’t homeless and have enough to eat that you dont have to consider a second job still says something about your economic state.
We’re gatekeeping being poor now?
No, we’re not. This is an observation of a fact: you are able to subsist on a single income.
That is still extremely arrogant of you.
To observe that this person is able to subsist on a single income? How is observing this fact arrogance?
It’s arrogant because they can’t afford much at all and you’re talking past what they’re saying. Poverty is the condition of much of the working class. Having enough to eat and having a place to live doesn’t mean all that much when the content of your life is doing work as an anonymous drone and maybe being able to watch Netflix after you get home. Any medical emergency can uproot your already frail social existence. The worker is treated like cattle, who, as you should know, have housing and food aplenty. The latter two facts are not the core of the argument here.
This guy is saying there’s a huge spot of black mould on the wall and you’re derailing what they’re saying with a nonargument.
This is what they said. I myself am in the exact same position as the person above. Saying that they never thought about a second job is stating that they have not been forced to lose even more of the little time of their own they have to achieve the basics. If anything this original comment is demeaning by implying that it’s possible to survive on a single income, albeit minimally, and that anyone doing more is choosing that.
However, you can’t just say they’re implying this or that. This is guesswork with respect to the commentator; You are putting words in their mouth.
Then don’t assume I am being arrogant! My original question was an honest one. How does them stating they get by better in this situation help someone that doesn’t? You are assuming my tone.