News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Some things never leave you – Christian Livermore on poverty. Parent comment

Re:Some things never leave you – Christian Livermore on poverty by majormajor on Thursday November 24, 2022 @01:07PM (#33734410)
> For example, things like getting a dog, signing up for cable TV, getting an unnecessarily expensive new phone, spending money on going out to eat, etc.

How much money do you think it takes to get out of poverty? Is not buying an iPhone and having an extra $1k, even - let's say they went big on the phone - "out of poverty"? That may not even be a month's rent, depending on location... to have security, you need many multiples of that.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Some things never leave you – Christian Livermore on poverty by josephcsible on Thursday November 24, 2022 @02:48PM (#33735468)
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Sure, no individual action will ever make you rich, but that doesn't mean you should never do anything.
[ Parent | on HN ]