discipline posted:nyc is way better for cutthroat poor living than london
unemployment among americans with advanced degrees is 4%.
discipline posted:unemployment in america is also figured in some puh-retty stupid ways but thanks for reminding me what a loser I am donald
dont worry ms zek. only 9% of americans have advanced degrees, so youre in the botom 4% of the top 9%
discipline posted:unemployment in america is also figured in some puh-retty stupid ways but thanks for reminding me what a loser I am donald
i can't tell if you're joking about dumpster diving and all that when you're middle class. like i'm not saying people with a MSc can't be poor, or that you're not low-income and have to be careful with money and all that, but it comes across like you're romanticizing slumming or something.
elemennop posted:10lb bag of protein powder is 80bucks and will last u a month, milk will run u 5 dollars a week, you can buy a 100 vitamin pills for a couple hamiltons, and then ur set for over a month
is it down to $80 now? where are you getting it from?
more likely than not you'll end up in a relatively good income, above-average prestige job within the medium term. in the meantime you're choosing to eat old bread you found on the street. that's fine, it's just not something you need to do to survive.
y...yeah
Donald burtally crushes it as we close up onto his face
just get on the benefits system and try to get a job
you can do crime if you want to really ensure you get that edge though since thats basically the bandito lifestyle your portraying poverty (which massive chunks of the world are in yet we need a survival guide for)
getfiscal posted:well you are talking about doing your laundry by hand instead of using a washing machine to save money because you are poor. but i don't think it really counts as being poor when it's entirely voluntary. you moved to the most expensive city in the US to live in when you're not willing to do a lot of jobs and so far you've chosen to work part time in an office as a temp. even then you have enough money to do laundry, or buy health insurance, or whatever. beyond that, in the past year you've been on trips to the middle east, russia, florida and seattle.
more likely than not you'll end up in a relatively good income, above-average prestige job within the medium term. in the meantime you're choosing to eat old bread you found on the street. that's fine, it's just not something you need to do to survive.
Damn, bro.
getfiscal posted:to make money you need to add value somewhere and to do that you need some sort of marketable skill. thanks to the dizzying diversity of modern capitalism that can be almost anything. you can make money by being passingly competent at grooming dogs or drawing logos or teaching basic math or basically anything.
what's my main skill. complaining about capitalism or some shit? that's not a skill. well, it is, but that's a saturated market where you end up selling articles about how the sudan doesn't have nice water wells for $100 to some magazine called The Persecuted or something.
"don't blame capitalism for that which can be explained by incompetence." - napoleon
your academicy so be a teacher
capitalism doesnt let you do what you actually want unless your rich so have some integrity and do soemthing socially useful whilst still giving yourself the space to learn and explain and organise
public sector can be good to but its all a bit hit and miss especially because rationalization has made it way more competitive to get in plus cut out alot of the entry level shit to make your way in
AmericanNazbro posted:Damn, bro.
He is right to be fair being poor and working class is a configuration with the means of production and a history of that has created a culture of being poor nothing like the life getfiscal described precisely because what was described is someone being on low income not being working class.
Basically work out why poor people dont download sweet pdfs from 1990s anarchists who lived in squats which this thread is basically in the honor of and you got it.
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getfiscal posted:but i don't think it really counts as being poor when it's entirely voluntary.
here, let me illustrate the logic of this sentence
it's amazing the amount of resentment people can pack as leftism
MadMedico posted:What are the requirements for donating sperm or eggs?
not being midget
being at least 5 9
not posting on rhizzone
ilmdge posted:why did you put the first requirement twice mustang
because thats what they told me
getfiscal posted:well you are talking about doing your laundry by hand instead of using a washing machine to save money because you are poor. but i don't think it really counts as being poor when it's entirely voluntary. you moved to the most expensive city in the US to live in when you're not willing to do a lot of jobs and so far you've chosen to work part time in an office as a temp. even then you have enough money to do laundry, or buy health insurance, or whatever. beyond that, in the past year you've been on trips to the middle east, russia, florida and seattle.
more likely than not you'll end up in a relatively good income, above-average prestige job within the medium term. in the meantime you're choosing to eat old bread you found on the street. that's fine, it's just not something you need to do to survive.
u throwin shade son
trust me, i know you wanna have a complete set, but it not not worthit. trust me,
SovietFriends posted:dumpster divers are always eco nuts or middle class low income people who translate being poor into some the road esque battle rather then something you have to construct a semblance of a normal life from in an effort to have any integrity about the way you exist
just get on the benefits system and try to get a job
you can do crime if you want to really ensure you get that edge though since thats basically the bandito lifestyle your portraying poverty (which massive chunks of the world are in yet we need a survival guide for)
ive done all these things at different times since moving here. scrounging, working, assistance, and crimes, only the first one feels any good and only the last one pays enough
SovietFriends posted:getfiscal posted:your academicy so be a teacher
capitalism doesnt let you do what you actually want unless your rich so have some integrity and do soemthing socially useful whilst still giving yourself the space to learn and explain and organise
public sector can be good to but its all a bit hit and miss especially because rationalization has made it way more competitive to get in plus cut out alot of the entry level shit to make your way in
no economic system lets you do what you want. peasants farm, first sons of nobles rule and second sons become mercenaries. My future prospects of employment are going to be tightly constrained by choices I made senior year of high school.
in conclusion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WN7D-iTOvTQ&feature=endscreen&NR=1
swampman posted:ive done all these things at different times since moving here. scrounging, working, assistance, and crimes, only the first one feels any good and only the last one pays enough
do them all at the same time its basically the actual formula for life and that's what the entire world of squatting seems to miss
i am not sure i get the entire anti working thing i mean its alienating but it also grounds you in a way which i cant find anywhere else
though in part its probs just cos i dont trust anyone who can have an actual proper life without working since even as i am working now i would die if it wasn't that my income was topped up by benefits and student loan and folks who live on benefits basically live in a struggle to get out without mega credit
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1) train for a trade or some certificate level work. welding is good.
2) don't buy anything unnecessary.
3) don't dive in dumpsters for third world diseases.
