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Re:The difference between ‘broke’ and ‘poor’ by loblollyboy on Saturday March 16, 2019 @02:09PM (#19409234)
Exactly - I’m from upper middle class and while this meant I was lucky enough to go back home when unemployed, all my peers were just career oriented and it’s very lonely to be ‘a loser’ - I recently moved in w some old coworkers/friends in a diff city who are from a diff socioeconomic background. At first they just let me stay in the apt, now I make more than them (though not a lot). We share like family and look after eachother. Sometimes I wish I made more, like the other day when we were all posting our salaries, or when I browse ‘Who’s Hiring’ - but other ppl are more important than anything (unless you’re like a genius or something), you can lose work, money, etc. The internet can make you feel more isolated, being isolated can make you crazy - you need people, mostly to talk to, but also to depend on and to help in turn.
Re:The difference between ‘broke’ and ‘poor’ by testpostpls on Saturday March 16, 2019 @10:49PM (#19411900)
Money is often used as a tool to control others.
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Re:The difference between ‘broke’ and ‘poor’ by dang on Saturday March 16, 2019 @09:39PM (#19411628)
This crosses into personal attack, which is not allowed here. It also breaks this guideline: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

Could you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow the rules when posting here? We'd be grateful.

Re:The difference between ‘broke’ and ‘poor’ by crumpets on Saturday March 16, 2019 @03:20PM (#19409627)
Reread the comment you replied to and it’s parent, then decide if shitting all over the comment was still appropriate. Op’s very first sentence admitted how relatively privileged he/she was.
Re:The difference between ‘broke’ and ‘poor’ by Jare on Saturday March 16, 2019 @03:23PM (#19409652)
Perhaps this

> you need people, mostly to talk to, but also to depend on and to help in turn

was his point? I think it's a valuable thing to say.

In turn, I'd ask you to please try to be more charitable when reading other people's posts.

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Re:The difference between ‘broke’ and ‘poor’ by dang on Saturday March 16, 2019 @09:40PM (#19411632)
Please don't take HN threads further off topic. If you see an egregious comment, flag it, as requested in https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and explained in https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. You're also welcome to email [email protected]. Venting about it here doesn't help; we don't see most of the posts. All it does is lower the signal/noise ratio of a thread even further.

The reason I know about this subthread is that another user flagged the GP comment. Had you added a flag of your own it would have killed it as well.

Re:The difference between ‘broke’ and ‘poor’ by pertymcpert on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @02:13AM (#19428484)
Maybe you should make the flag button visible.