SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-216 days agoPeople who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be poor and how close middle class is to being below the povertymessage-squaremessage-square197fedilinkarrow-up1889arrow-down133
arrow-up1856arrow-down1message-squarePeople who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be poor and how close middle class is to being below the povertySatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-216 days agomessage-square197fedilink
minus-squareTubularTittyFrog@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-215 days agobecause middle class is good and noble. being poor or wealthy means you’re an asshole and is considered shameful. hence everyone is desperate to claim they are not rich and desperately afraid of being seen as poor by people richer than themselves.
because middle class is good and noble.
being poor or wealthy means you’re an asshole and is considered shameful.
hence everyone is desperate to claim they are not rich and desperately afraid of being seen as poor by people richer than themselves.