• Melkath@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    You don’t get any sort of financial assistance?

    I grew up on the poverty line. Food Stamps and Affortable Housing programs got us by.

    I worked my ass off to get above the threshold of qualifying for any sort of assistance, and now I live at about the same level because food and rent eat up the difference between what I make and what my parents made.

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      1 year ago

      Nope, no direct financial assistance. Though my parents are close by, and do help with things like inviting me over to dinner like once a month and helping me buy used furniture, if that counts. I shop very frugally and don’t have expensive hobbies. The only thing I’m really missing is savings.

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            1 year ago

            Ya.

            You can’t figure out how to make 150k, but you think you are better than people who have.

            Tried to end it nice, but fuck you are a raging asshole.

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                Household, not solo, income of about 150k.

                About same quality of life as I had growing up.

                No kids.

                Bottom barrel health insurance is a LOT more expensive than it is for people who make less. Drive a Honda Civic, but I still pay more for car insurance than my buddies that make less and drive Mustangs/Chargers/etc. My mom got WIC. I don’t. My mom qualified for Affordable Housing. I don’t.

                I mean… I endorse you punching up, but I don’t think you aim those punches high enough, which makes you look like the kind of asshole who it makes sense that you can’t find actual gainful employment to advance yourself.

                If this conversation proceeds, I need to know if you have reproduced, if you have been divorced, and if you are on any form of public assistance.

                I’m no divorce/no kids/ can’t qualify for public assistance and my rent, food, and insurance costs have me living paycheck to paycheck.

                At a current household income of, specifically, about 130k, far higher than I ever thought I’d pull off, there is NO shot at me getting a mortgage and I’m still living at the standard of life whose tax statements include kids, divorces, far lower paying jobs, and public assistance.