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Re:On the experience of being dirt-poorish, for people who w... by friend_and_foe on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @05:41AM (#35451565)
You're right about everything you said, minus the "poverty tourism", I think that's a little excessively condescending.

Poverty is the wrong word for this. Someone else in this thread said it better than I can come up with: poverty is lack of options. If this lifestyle is a choice it isn't poverty. I agree with that. No matter how simple you choose to make your life, if you've got options you're doing good.

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Re:On the experience of being dirt-poorish, for people who w... by superchroma on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @06:30PM (#35461323)
Fair. I intended it in the most charitable way possible.
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