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Re:On the Experience of Being Poor-Ish, for People Who Aren't by myself248 on Monday March 01, 2021 @03:13PM (#26307772)
What's jarring to me is the author's characterization of car repair as "poor-people skills". Knowing how to use tools can be part of being poor, or it can be part of being an engineer who designs things that can actually be manufactured and assembled.

Either that or I'm a lot poorer than I think I am!

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Re:On the Experience of Being Poor-Ish, for People Who Aren't by dragonwriter on Monday March 01, 2021 @03:17PM (#26307828)
> What's jarring to me is the author's characterization of car repair as "poor-people skills".

Car repair is a skill of economic importance of you are poor or employed in auto repair. Otherwise, it's obviously a skill someone might have, but far less critical.

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