30 Things That End Up Costing More For Poor People Than For The Rich
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Publish Not your original work? Add source Did you know that some banks require a minimum balance and charge their clients a fee if they drop below it? Sounds absurd, I know. But that's just the beginning of the journey we're taking. Recently, Reddit user Paratrooperkid made a post on r/AntiWork, asking others to list all the examples why being poor is actually expensive. And they definitely picked the right place for it. r/AntiWork is a subreddit with 1.3 million members who, according to the community itself, "want to end work, are curious about ending work, want to get the most out of a work-free life, want more information on anti-work ideas, and want personal help with their own jobs/work-related struggles." In other words, these folks have plenty of shared experiences regarding unemployment. As more and more people shared their answers, the post went viral and now has 60K upvotes and 16K comments. Here are some of the (indirect) ways the system taxes the most vulnerable ones. Image credits: Paratrooperkid This post may include affiliate links. #1 Rent vs mortgage. The bank says you're too poor for an $800 mortgage payment, so you have to pay $1500 on rent instead. ManWithPets , pexels Report Final score: 212points POST Helen Haley Helen Haley Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Plus a minimum of like 10K up front. Because everyone can save that when they have to pay $1500 in rent a month. 58 58points reply View More Replies... View more comments #2 Well. Here's a good example of something that happens all the time. Daily. Single mom hasn't gotten her child support check on time. A water* utility bill hits her account that was supposed to be covered by that support. Bank account goes -$135.00 due to the utility bill. The overdraft then incurs a $45 overdraft fee. So. The mom is now -$180 and the electric company sends a letter saying her power will be shut off if payment is not rendered by x date. She knows she won't be paid until two days after the cutoff. So. Waiting for support and her check she's now scouring her floorboard for change to put in her tank to get herself to work and the kids to school. The electric cutoff day comes and goes and the support check doesn't show up. Because she's being paid a sh*t wage she has nothing left over for this emergency. The electric gets cutoff and now her $135.00 bill has incurred a $50 service restart fee. Now her electric bill is $185.00 and she still owes $175 to the bank for the water* overdraft. She is still waiting on the support check. But now because she had to pay the extras for the overdraft, and the electric, she can't afford lunch for the kids this week. So she again scours change to get a loaf of bread and peanut butter. Her kids are still hungry so they get lunch from the school. If the school isn't a*sholes they'll have an account for her kids that will now also be negative. This actually happened in my friends household. It was the most heartbreaking bullsh*t thing you'd ever hear. And it happens every.single.minute. TheFLAwoman , unsplash Report Final score: 201points POST heidi hunt heidi hunt Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Been there 40 40points reply View more comments #3 The hardest part of being poor for me, was the “cost” of time. My weekly grocery trip took almost four hours. Between the time spent looking over fliers and making a list of what I could afford, walking to the closest bus stop, transferring to another bus, an hour of shopping and tallying up my total to make sure I was within budget, waiting up to 20 minutes for a bus home, including another transfer and the walk home with all my groceries from the bus stop. I would often go without groceries because I didn’t have time to get to the store and was stuck making Kraft Dinner Mac and Cheese without butter or milk, because that is what was in the pantry. Now that I live more comfortably, I drive to the store in 10 minutes, spend 30 minutes shopping and am home and finished within an hour.
ETA: it’s been more than 10 years since I ate Sad KD and today I’m lucky to have a full cupboard, fridge and freezer. I am so sorry for everybody who can recognize themselves in this post. I never realized this was such a universal experience. TwoBlueToes , unsplash Report Final score: 160points POST lenka lenka Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Yes. When I was a teen I lived by myself in a little hovel on the outside of town. I didn't have a washing machine or car so I would have to walk to the laundromat to wash clothes. If I left them there, they were stolen so I had to sit and wait for them to be done and then walk home again. Instead of being able to throw a load of laundry in and go to work, it took three hours of my time. Then I had to do grocery shopping. Couldn't carry laundry and groceries and they weren't in the same direction anyway, so walk to the supermarket, shop takes time because you have to carefully inspect prices and then walk home again. I was unable to pick up extra working hours to get out of poverty because poverty demanded my time. 58 58points reply View More Replies... View more comments #4 It’s cheaper to buy processed foods, leading to higher risk of cancer and other illnesses. Healthy foods are a privilege. I wish I could afford more fruit Worldslnside , unsplash Report Final score: 154points POST Caro Caro Caro Caro Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago This is outrageous. We've had posts here on BP about food/diet. Governments (USA?) should budge in and do something. I'm lucky that where I live veggies and fruit are cheap and good quality. 44 44points reply View More Replies... View more comments #5 Getting to and from work. Since you're poor, you cannot afford to live close to work and thus have a longer commute.
But you also cannot afford to own and run a reliable car, so you have a beater that breaks all the time and gets poor mileage.
When it breaks, you can't get paid because you aren't at work so you have a new bill PLUS halted income.
To compensate, you take out high interest loans to repair the car. But it breaks again later so you're always in debt for high interest loans on top of the car costs.
I see this a lot in the northeast. YankeeScourge , pexels Report Final score: 145points POST Sakeena Sakeena Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Happens in the southeast too, where there’s miles and miles of trees and grass between the next actual anything. 14 14points reply View more comments #6 Shoes.
You need good shoes to work in, but you can't afford good shoes so you buy ok shoes that break after 3 months.
After 4 pairs of ok shoes in a year, you've spent more than if you'd bought 1 pair of good shoes. TheVantal , pxhere Report Final score: 131points POST Sarcastic Cow Sarcastic Cow Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago (edited) For more see genius Terry Pratchetts character cpt. Sam Vimes ´Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.´ 81 81points reply View More Replies... View more comments #7 I can help you out. I worked with homeless folks in LA for a few years. The stories I could tell you.
One that was a recurring tale, all too common, were parking tickets. Rich people? Big deal. Pay it online, it’s an afterthought at its worst.
Now that same parking ticket issued to a homeless person living out of their car, trying to scrounge together money for a deposit on a place whilst working a sh*tty service sector job?
That’s devastating. It’s another 2-3 months of sleeping in the car. Or maybe it’s a few days worth of missed meals. Or maybe it’s skipping out on that expensive medication that your sh*tty insurance wont cover.
I could provide you endless examples of the way this country punishes the poor. People need a reality check. Frothydawg , unsplash Report Final score: 125points POST Cactus McCoy Cactus McCoy Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Living in your car WHILE HAVING A BLOODY JOB is insane. The underlying system is completely broken. 68 68points reply View More Replies... View more comments #8 I don’t own my home, I rent. My colleague owns. We make the same money and pay the same income taxes. The gov uses the taxes to upgrade the roads, and infrastructure in town. My colleague’s equity goes up, so does my landlord’s, because of our tax dollars spent. So he gets richer. My land lord gets richer.
Me? My rent goes up Sensitive_Dig7955 , pexels Report Final score: 124points POST Patti Vance Patti Vance Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago this is something that pisses me off to no end. if you have a person or couple with decent jobs who show through their history that they are good renters but have no other assets or a huge savings, why the hell would a lending agency think they were not a good risk to have a mortgage. renting costs so much more than owning. also, not all apartments have utilities included and, if a person/couple is renting they they already are paying for those kind of things. 28 28points reply View More Replies... View more comments #9 I’ve never had the money to spend on regular dental work so now I’m spending thousands more to fix everything that was neglected
I would like to make an edit and add that a ton of you in the comments have suggested dental tourism and dental schools. Both are great ideas! dayoldhotwing , unsplash Report Final score: 118points POST Cee Mor Cee Mor Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago I just tried a new dentist and it was over 600 for a cleaning...now I have to try out another more affordable dentist to get the fillings done...in about 6 months. 14 14points reply View More Replies... View more comments #10 You meticulously maintain a high mileage used car that is totaled in a car accident that is not your fault. Insurance company will only pay you $1,000 for your car. crizelnitch , pixabay Report Final score: 118points POST Chucky Cheezburger Chucky Cheezburger Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago This sucks even when someone isn't poor. It's such a pain to replace a car for what rip-off...er, I mean insurance company deems your car worth. 34 34points reply View More Replies... View more comments #11 Many banks charge a monthly fee to have an account with a balance under a certain level (e.g. $1500). It's literally a poverty fee. TheFractangle , pexels Report Final score: 117points POST WilvanderHeijden WilvanderHeijden Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 10 months ago Seems that a US bank that would treat their customers like European banks do, would blow all the other US banks out of the water. 45 45points reply View More Replies... View more comments #12 if you cant afford your own laundry machine or an apartment that comes with one it costs like $10 in quarters to do laundry. EVERY TIME. falanian , unsplash Report Final score: 110points POST Jenny Shmurak Jenny Shmurak Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago And that's a luxury too. In my country I've never seen those quarters laundry places. Always thought it was an american movies thing. Also, noone has a washing machine in the basement of apartment buildings. Only in dorms. 21 21points reply View More Replies... View more comments #13 I’m the opposite of poor and I see this every day. Because I have money to always pay my credit card bills fully on time I buy everything with them and wind up with a 2% discount/cash back on everything I buy. This adds up to thousands of $/year. There are tons of things that are discounted if you are rich. One of the sh*ttiest things about our economy monkey22x Report Final score: 106points POST Cactus McCoy Cactus McCoy Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Yeah. Also, being able to buy the good, lasting stuff leads to not spending money on many things like good quality clothing, appliences and tools. Saves a HUGE ammount of money over time. 28 28points reply View more comments #14 How about the fact that homelessness is illegal texas-hippie , pexels Report Final score: 105points POST Caro Caro Caro Caro Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago God the hopelessness. How can you make it illegal if you don't help? WTF is wrong with people. 62 62points reply View More Replies... View more comments #15 Attendance micromanagement at work.
Hear me out.
I am currently at a much higher paying position. It’s salaried. My boss has the mindset that she doesn’t care when things get done just so long as they get done. She’s flexible on when I clock in/out and doesn’t feel the need to track if I’m hitting exactly forty hours a week. (Again, salaried position).
Contrast to past jobs that paid less than half as much. Many of my coworkers took public transit (couldn’t own a car). I could have easily taken public transit, it was one bus and short walk from my house. However. I opted to drive because we would be disciplined for being more than two minutes “tardy” clocking in.
The bus is NOT that reliable, y’all.
So we have multiple workers showing up 10-20 minutes early to sit around with unpaid time so they don’t get docked for being tardy. And the policy was such that three tardies mean you get written up, then it escalates to action, then to termination. It’s real easy to lose your job because your bus route is not reliable. But most of the people taking the bus to work are in the low paying positions that micromanage if you’re two minutes late (even if it’s out of your control).
Bosses keep their thumbs on the low earners and it keeps them there. Schannin Report Final score: 103points POST rspanther rspanther Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago I like to say that the only reliable thing about my public transit is that it is unreliable. 28 28points reply View More Replies... View more comments #16 Only being able to afford the small jar of mayo (or whatever), even though the larger jar is a better deal.
Overdraft fees that charge you money for having no money.
Late fees for not being able to afford your bills.
Having to go to the closest grocery store, even though it may not be the cheapest, because it's on the bus route or within walking distance.
Payday loans
Rent to own stores where you have to pay a ton of money for a couch, but pay weekly klms21 , pexels Report Final score: 88points POST Alice Alice Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Local fb groups here in the UK are a great source of unwanted furniture, where people can offer their unwanted sofas and stuff for someone who might like them. 19 19points reply View More Replies... View more comments #17 And you spend so much time just trying to survive you have little time to improve yourself apathetic_take Report Final score: 86points POST Sakeena Sakeena Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Yes. This hurts so much. 21 21points reply View more comments #18 When I first lived on my own (escaped a bad situation), I bought a splurge...$100 of groceries. I meal prepped, made dozens of bags of frozen prepared veggies etc. I was eating healthy and I felt like I actually just did good for myself. I thought it was a smart move.
I was literally set up for almost two months.
The power went out. My insurance couldn't cover it. I lost so much food. I just saved a few items that were frozen solid.
I cried until I threw up. I eventually had my dad drop off some leftovers but I never told him what happened, I was too embarrassed. Feralcrumpetart Report Final score: 82points POST Dianellian Dianellian Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 10 months ago That’s so sad. You shouldn’t be embarrassed as I’m sure your dad didn’t mind helping you out. 34 34points reply View More Replies... View more comments #19 Not being able to afford preventive medical care leads to huge medical bills later. I’ve seen it numerous times where people put off routine exams/procedures, and then come through the ER and end up with an amputation, or even death, because the illness had progressed so far before they sought treatment. Stoic-Nurse , pexels Report Final score: 81points POST Helen Haley Helen Haley Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Every injury, every cough, every tooth pain is accompanied by panic because it is like having a hole in your pocket. You have no idea how much this is going to cost. But you know it is likely to ruin you. 44 44points reply View More Replies... View more comments #20 40,000 per year before taxes
35,200 after taxes
Rent 1100 × 12 = 13200
Car note 400 × 12 = 4800
Car insurance 200 × 12 = 2400
Utilities, gas for the car, internet 400 x 12 = 4800
Food 400 × 12 = 4800
Total 30,000
These are nice round numbers and I live in one of the "lowest cost of living" states in the US....this also includes 0 entertainment expenses like Netflix, going out with friends, taking a vacation etc.
5200 bucks left over to save for the year easily gets decimated by just 1 or 2 car issues, maybe 1 or 2 doctor/dentist visits, God forbid you have 1 of each Car issue, doctor visit and dentist visit in the same year...
Imagine working 40+ hrs a week just to be able to work 40+ hrs a week and stay alive....nothing more. LibertyEquality Report Final score: 79points POST Marianne Saiso Marianne Saiso Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago I don't really have to imagine that. 31 31points reply View more comments #21 For me, it was moreso the fact that everything was a choice. The mental strain of trying to figure out how to budget $100 when you realistically need $150...it's f*cking horrible.
It leads to bad decisions over time too. I smoked cigarettes because I was always so stressed and cigarettes are expensive. I knew I was wasting money and couldn't really afford it, but it was one of the only things that got me through shifts of hell at work Charvel420 , pexels Report Final score: 78points POST Paula Marowsky Paula Marowsky Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Cigarrettes... alcohol... now you know why poor people get into them 26 26points reply View More Replies... View more comments See Also on Bored Panda Woman Shows How "Harry Potter" Characters Were Supposed To Look According To Book Descriptions (35 Pics) 50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective #22 I overdrafted my account by $.27. The bank charged me $35. My credit score was bad so my interest was worse when getting a car. My credit sucked so I couldn't buy a house so I had to rent for almost double.
Just some of my past examples. Mohican83 , pexels Report Final score: 75points POST Cactus McCoy Cactus McCoy Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago This s**t happens when a country is run like a corporation. 40 40points reply View More Replies... View more comments #23 College loans: spend thirty years paying interest on a college degree because you don't have rich parents. Also if you don't have a college degree, you'll be excluded from nearly all jobs that pay decently.
Freedom of "choice" RealCaseyBlack , pexels Report Final score: 74points POST WilvanderHeijden WilvanderHeijden Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 10 months ago USA: Land of the free, home of the broke. 52 52points reply View More Replies... View more comments #24 Not me personally but my best friend recently got an unpaid internship at a hospital because he needs the experience as an upcoming graduate student in an MPH program.
The hospital required him to be fully vaccinated and to get a sh*t ton of shots. However, they won’t pay for it and if you don’t do it, you will lose your spot. Since he has no insurance, he ended up paying $280 out of pocket to go work for free just so he can build his resume. SMH ! LVucci Report Final score: 74points POST Thorfin Wolfsbane Thorfin Wolfsbane Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago "intern" is the new word for indentured servant, but being an indentured servant was better because room, board, and clothing was provided. 53 53points reply View More Replies... View more comments #25 How abput depression and anxiety caused by financial pressures being 'treated' by a therapist and being charged $75 copay per visit. Then, if the anxiety is bad enough that you don't go, you get a $45 cancellation fee unless you cancel 2 days+ in advance. Self-fueling system. emistal27 Report Final score: 72points POST WilvanderHeijden WilvanderHeijden Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 10 months ago US health care is a for profit system and only aimed at being beneficial for the ones working in the business. It doesn't matter if your treatment makes you better or makes you dead, you will pay the bills. 28 28points reply View more comments #26 If you have a low credit score you have to pay a $300 deposit in order to get power turned on at your place. (In Las Vegas Nevada)
In Vegas there's only one power company NV Energy cella80 , unsplash Report Final score: 70points POST Sakeena Sakeena Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Oo this is a big one. Entergy in the southeast is notorious. And don’t miss a few days out sick and can’t afford your light bill. You gotta get it caught up and pay a reconnect fee. 22 22points reply View more comments #27 We're in the New England states where it's gotten to 15 degrees Fahrenheit overnight. We've been without heat for three weeks now because it will cost us $800 to fill our K1 tank. We don't have the $350 for 100 gallons either. We're currently jacking up our electric bill, risking fire, and risking the safety of us and our cats by using the oven to heat the house. We're also risking our pipes bursting.
All because we can't come up with $350 upfront. Erulastiel , unsplash Report Final score: 66points POST Bill Bill Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Off road diesel is K2 with dye. You only need 5 gallons to run at sub zero for 24 hours from empty. I know lots of people who fill up a 5 gallon gas can every day 22 22points reply View More Replies... View more comments #28 Higher interest rates any time you borrow. Lack of assets to borrow money against. Lower paying jobs are generally harder on a person’s body and lead to more doctor visits and medical bills. Driving a cheap old car means shelling out more money for repairs and fuel than a person driving a newer model. JoeMayoParty , pexels Report Final score: 64points POST Helen Haley Helen Haley Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago My dad freaked out when he heard what my auto loan interest rate was. My credit score wasn't even that bad. 16 16points reply View more comments #29 Friend broke his glasses today. Insurance wants a reeval of his eyes to get new ones, so now he's out a couple hundred for the script and can't work until they're replaced. Also can't drive until he can see. basicwhitelich Report Final score: 59points POST Becky Samuel Becky Samuel Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago What shíthole country is this in? An eye test costs under £20 on the high street. 28 28points reply View More Replies... View more comments #30 Poor people can’t pay for childcare. The wealthy rely on underpaying people to take care of their kids. Meaning it’s easier to have two income households without the penalty of being a parent. Perpetuating the cycle of poverty Parking_Relative_228 Report Final score: 58points POST Sakeena Sakeena Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Then they scoff at childcare professionals wanting increased pay. 24 24points reply View More Replies... View more comments Note: this post originally had 71 images. It’s been shortened to the top 30 images based on user votes. Anyone can write on Bored Panda. Start writing! Follow Bored Panda on Google News! Follow us on Flipboard.com/@boredpanda! Add Your Answer! Not your original work? Add source Publish Change image Upload Photo Ooops! Your image is too large, maximum file size is 8 MB. Upload Upload Edit Image Error occurred when generating embed. Please check link and try again. Render conversation
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Guys, please, something is fundamentally wrong when you have to choose between medical care or rent and when a box of some salty, fatty, sugar laden conveyor belt food is cheaper to buy than vegetables. 19 19points reply Mazer Mazer Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago (edited) Nothing any citizen can do about it. Corporate greed has politicians by the balls, they have no spine to change things. Unfortunately creating your own system when the system is broken usually means doing something illegal which just makes things worse. Voting for a politician interested in Making changes amounts to nothing. There is no political will to change things. Unfortunately this entire scenario creates a weak country with citizens who don’t trust their government…rightly so 8 8points reply Load More Replies... Kristin Ingersoll Kristin Ingersoll Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Yup. The system is overwhelmingly huge and complex. There's nothing we can do. And the poor are so busy trying to keep their heads above water, they certainly don't have the time, not to mention the money, to start a revolution to make huge, systemic change. 1 1point reply Isabella Isabella Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Bullshit. They dopn't want to do things, because it would be hard and get ugly, not that it is not possible. It is. Check how on Iceland people threw away their gov by not going to work for one day - all the ppl in the country did that. 0 0points reply Jessica LanSpe Jessica LanSpe Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Iceland is not the size of the USA. It's possible for a small country like that to make an immediate change, but not the USA. The USA is TOO big for that to be possible quickly. 0 0points reply memyselfandI memyselfandI Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago For reference (from Google): Iceland is approximately 103,000 sq km, while United States is approximately 9,833,517 sq km, making United States 9,447% larger than Iceland. Meanwhile, the population of Iceland is ~350,734 people (332.3 million more people live in United States). 0 0points reply Nickname Nickname Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Fix your country one state at time then, if my people thought it's not worth trying to fight, my country wouldn't exist, the options always will be to suffer, die or win, your choice. 0 0points reply Scarbez Scarbez Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago But that is not true! That is the point. Do you think a country would be stable if a large proportion of the population were suffering these conditions?! It is a subset of the population. Yes, when it happens it is bad but it is not that common. Come on, there would be riots every weekend -2 -2points reply WilvanderHeijden WilvanderHeijden Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 10 months ago This is a depressing list of how a dystopian society looks like and how it is to live in one. But do keep voting for politicians who rather see you dead than earning a livable wage, telling you that you're a lazy POS if you refuse to work for less than a livable wage. 10 10points reply Two_rolling_black_eyes Two_rolling_black_eyes Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago The rich get what they want in politics because they have the time to ask for it. Karen can go to the town hall meetings to make homelessness illegal because she's not on a bus between jobs trying to avoid homelessness. A doctor can give money to a lobbyist to sit in a senator's office just waiting for a meeting while his patient who gave them that money doesn't have the time to sit in that same senator's office. 6 6points reply Load More Replies... Honu Honu Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Yep. And when Republican legislators pass laws making it harder to vote, they know that the people who are suffering the most from this dystopia are the ones who will be most affected. They need those extended voting hours and mail in voting because their jobs won't let them pop out for a couple hours in the middle of the day to go vote like my cushy, white collar office job will. Restricting voting has become the central focus of the Republican party because they know the majority of Americans do not support them. The only way they keep power is by targeting certain people to keep them from voting. 1 1point reply Patti Vance Patti Vance Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago yes!!!! i have a family member that is convinced that the reason so many lower paying positions are screaming for help now is because they are getting government handout in some form. no, it is because during the lockdown people learned that they didn't need to buy some of the things they thought were essential. they took the time to get online education and are looking for something better. they have the ability to look for better wages because now they can actively job search when before they would have had to take time off work. or, they may have thought that idea they had to be self employed but didn't have the courage to take that step away from a paycheck was provided to them to get it started. and, yes, we need to get the old predominantly white men out of congress who have made a career out of fleecing the people with their lies during election time only to ignore them once their seat is secure. so many of those politicians are lawyers, doctors, who are the lazy ones. 3 3points reply Got Myself 4 Dwarves Got Myself 4 Dwarves Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Thank f**k I live in Scotland, yeah a lot of these still apply but I have zero concerns about my utilities being cut off, medical bills, decent public transport, free education, free school meals in primary school....the list could go on. I'd rather eat my own toes than live in the society that's developed in a so called developed country 9 9points reply Load More Comments POST Bill Evs Bill Evs Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago (edited) I hate saying this as I don't really like all these "look how bad America is" articles but it's obvious a lot (as in the majority) of these posts are from Americans. Guys, please, something is fundamentally wrong when you have to choose between medical care or rent and when a box of some salty, fatty, sugar laden conveyor belt food is cheaper to buy than vegetables. 19 19points reply Mazer Mazer Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago (edited) Nothing any citizen can do about it. Corporate greed has politicians by the balls, they have no spine to change things. Unfortunately creating your own system when the system is broken usually means doing something illegal which just makes things worse. Voting for a politician interested in Making changes amounts to nothing. There is no political will to change things. Unfortunately this entire scenario creates a weak country with citizens who don’t trust their government…rightly so 8 8points reply Load More Replies... Kristin Ingersoll Kristin Ingersoll Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Yup. The system is overwhelmingly huge and complex. There's nothing we can do. And the poor are so busy trying to keep their heads above water, they certainly don't have the time, not to mention the money, to start a revolution to make huge, systemic change. 1 1point reply Isabella Isabella Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Bullshit. They dopn't want to do things, because it would be hard and get ugly, not that it is not possible. It is. Check how on Iceland people threw away their gov by not going to work for one day - all the ppl in the country did that. 0 0points reply Jessica LanSpe Jessica LanSpe Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Iceland is not the size of the USA. It's possible for a small country like that to make an immediate change, but not the USA. The USA is TOO big for that to be possible quickly. 0 0points reply memyselfandI memyselfandI Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago For reference (from Google): Iceland is approximately 103,000 sq km, while United States is approximately 9,833,517 sq km, making United States 9,447% larger than Iceland. Meanwhile, the population of Iceland is ~350,734 people (332.3 million more people live in United States). 0 0points reply Nickname Nickname Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Fix your country one state at time then, if my people thought it's not worth trying to fight, my country wouldn't exist, the options always will be to suffer, die or win, your choice. 0 0points reply Scarbez Scarbez Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago But that is not true! That is the point. Do you think a country would be stable if a large proportion of the population were suffering these conditions?! It is a subset of the population. Yes, when it happens it is bad but it is not that common. Come on, there would be riots every weekend -2 -2points reply WilvanderHeijden WilvanderHeijden Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 10 months ago This is a depressing list of how a dystopian society looks like and how it is to live in one. But do keep voting for politicians who rather see you dead than earning a livable wage, telling you that you're a lazy POS if you refuse to work for less than a livable wage. 10 10points reply Two_rolling_black_eyes Two_rolling_black_eyes Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago The rich get what they want in politics because they have the time to ask for it. Karen can go to the town hall meetings to make homelessness illegal because she's not on a bus between jobs trying to avoid homelessness. A doctor can give money to a lobbyist to sit in a senator's office just waiting for a meeting while his patient who gave them that money doesn't have the time to sit in that same senator's office. 6 6points reply Load More Replies... Honu Honu Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Yep. And when Republican legislators pass laws making it harder to vote, they know that the people who are suffering the most from this dystopia are the ones who will be most affected. They need those extended voting hours and mail in voting because their jobs won't let them pop out for a couple hours in the middle of the day to go vote like my cushy, white collar office job will. Restricting voting has become the central focus of the Republican party because they know the majority of Americans do not support them. The only way they keep power is by targeting certain people to keep them from voting. 1 1point reply Patti Vance Patti Vance Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago yes!!!! i have a family member that is convinced that the reason so many lower paying positions are screaming for help now is because they are getting government handout in some form. no, it is because during the lockdown people learned that they didn't need to buy some of the things they thought were essential. they took the time to get online education and are looking for something better. they have the ability to look for better wages because now they can actively job search when before they would have had to take time off work. or, they may have thought that idea they had to be self employed but didn't have the courage to take that step away from a paycheck was provided to them to get it started. and, yes, we need to get the old predominantly white men out of congress who have made a career out of fleecing the people with their lies during election time only to ignore them once their seat is secure. so many of those politicians are lawyers, doctors, who are the lazy ones. 3 3points reply Got Myself 4 Dwarves Got Myself 4 Dwarves Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Thank f**k I live in Scotland, yeah a lot of these still apply but I have zero concerns about my utilities being cut off, medical bills, decent public transport, free education, free school meals in primary school....the list could go on. 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30 Things That End Up Costing More For Poor People Than For The Rich
Rokas Laurinavičius andMindaugas Balčiauskas
Publish Not your original work? Add source Did you know that some banks require a minimum balance and charge their clients a fee if they drop below it? Sounds absurd, I know. But that's just the beginning of the journey we're taking. Recently, Reddit user Paratrooperkid made a post on r/AntiWork, asking others to list all the examples why being poor is actually expensive. And they definitely picked the right place for it. r/AntiWork is a subreddit with 1.3 million members who, according to the community itself, "want to end work, are curious about ending work, want to get the most out of a work-free life, want more information on anti-work ideas, and want personal help with their own jobs/work-related struggles." In other words, these folks have plenty of shared experiences regarding unemployment. As more and more people shared their answers, the post went viral and now has 60K upvotes and 16K comments. Here are some of the (indirect) ways the system taxes the most vulnerable ones. Image credits: Paratrooperkid This post may include affiliate links. #1 Rent vs mortgage. The bank says you're too poor for an $800 mortgage payment, so you have to pay $1500 on rent instead. ManWithPets , pexels Report Final score: 212points POST Helen Haley Helen Haley Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Plus a minimum of like 10K up front. Because everyone can save that when they have to pay $1500 in rent a month. 58 58points reply View More Replies... View more comments #2 Well. Here's a good example of something that happens all the time. Daily. Single mom hasn't gotten her child support check on time. A water* utility bill hits her account that was supposed to be covered by that support. Bank account goes -$135.00 due to the utility bill. The overdraft then incurs a $45 overdraft fee. So. The mom is now -$180 and the electric company sends a letter saying her power will be shut off if payment is not rendered by x date. She knows she won't be paid until two days after the cutoff. So. Waiting for support and her check she's now scouring her floorboard for change to put in her tank to get herself to work and the kids to school. The electric cutoff day comes and goes and the support check doesn't show up. Because she's being paid a sh*t wage she has nothing left over for this emergency. The electric gets cutoff and now her $135.00 bill has incurred a $50 service restart fee. Now her electric bill is $185.00 and she still owes $175 to the bank for the water* overdraft. She is still waiting on the support check. But now because she had to pay the extras for the overdraft, and the electric, she can't afford lunch for the kids this week. So she again scours change to get a loaf of bread and peanut butter. Her kids are still hungry so they get lunch from the school. If the school isn't a*sholes they'll have an account for her kids that will now also be negative. This actually happened in my friends household. It was the most heartbreaking bullsh*t thing you'd ever hear. And it happens every.single.minute. TheFLAwoman , unsplash Report Final score: 201points POST heidi hunt heidi hunt Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Been there 40 40points reply View more comments #3 The hardest part of being poor for me, was the “cost” of time. My weekly grocery trip took almost four hours. Between the time spent looking over fliers and making a list of what I could afford, walking to the closest bus stop, transferring to another bus, an hour of shopping and tallying up my total to make sure I was within budget, waiting up to 20 minutes for a bus home, including another transfer and the walk home with all my groceries from the bus stop. I would often go without groceries because I didn’t have time to get to the store and was stuck making Kraft Dinner Mac and Cheese without butter or milk, because that is what was in the pantry. Now that I live more comfortably, I drive to the store in 10 minutes, spend 30 minutes shopping and am home and finished within an hour.
ETA: it’s been more than 10 years since I ate Sad KD and today I’m lucky to have a full cupboard, fridge and freezer. I am so sorry for everybody who can recognize themselves in this post. I never realized this was such a universal experience. TwoBlueToes , unsplash Report Final score: 160points POST lenka lenka Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Yes. When I was a teen I lived by myself in a little hovel on the outside of town. I didn't have a washing machine or car so I would have to walk to the laundromat to wash clothes. If I left them there, they were stolen so I had to sit and wait for them to be done and then walk home again. Instead of being able to throw a load of laundry in and go to work, it took three hours of my time. Then I had to do grocery shopping. Couldn't carry laundry and groceries and they weren't in the same direction anyway, so walk to the supermarket, shop takes time because you have to carefully inspect prices and then walk home again. I was unable to pick up extra working hours to get out of poverty because poverty demanded my time. 58 58points reply View More Replies... View more comments #4 It’s cheaper to buy processed foods, leading to higher risk of cancer and other illnesses. Healthy foods are a privilege. I wish I could afford more fruit Worldslnside , unsplash Report Final score: 154points POST Caro Caro Caro Caro Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago This is outrageous. We've had posts here on BP about food/diet. Governments (USA?) should budge in and do something. I'm lucky that where I live veggies and fruit are cheap and good quality. 44 44points reply View More Replies... View more comments #5 Getting to and from work. Since you're poor, you cannot afford to live close to work and thus have a longer commute.
But you also cannot afford to own and run a reliable car, so you have a beater that breaks all the time and gets poor mileage.
When it breaks, you can't get paid because you aren't at work so you have a new bill PLUS halted income.
To compensate, you take out high interest loans to repair the car. But it breaks again later so you're always in debt for high interest loans on top of the car costs.
I see this a lot in the northeast. YankeeScourge , pexels Report Final score: 145points POST Sakeena Sakeena Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Happens in the southeast too, where there’s miles and miles of trees and grass between the next actual anything. 14 14points reply View more comments #6 Shoes.
You need good shoes to work in, but you can't afford good shoes so you buy ok shoes that break after 3 months.
After 4 pairs of ok shoes in a year, you've spent more than if you'd bought 1 pair of good shoes. TheVantal , pxhere Report Final score: 131points POST Sarcastic Cow Sarcastic Cow Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago (edited) For more see genius Terry Pratchetts character cpt. Sam Vimes ´Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.´ 81 81points reply View More Replies... View more comments #7 I can help you out. I worked with homeless folks in LA for a few years. The stories I could tell you.
One that was a recurring tale, all too common, were parking tickets. Rich people? Big deal. Pay it online, it’s an afterthought at its worst.
Now that same parking ticket issued to a homeless person living out of their car, trying to scrounge together money for a deposit on a place whilst working a sh*tty service sector job?
That’s devastating. It’s another 2-3 months of sleeping in the car. Or maybe it’s a few days worth of missed meals. Or maybe it’s skipping out on that expensive medication that your sh*tty insurance wont cover.
I could provide you endless examples of the way this country punishes the poor. People need a reality check. Frothydawg , unsplash Report Final score: 125points POST Cactus McCoy Cactus McCoy Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Living in your car WHILE HAVING A BLOODY JOB is insane. The underlying system is completely broken. 68 68points reply View More Replies... View more comments #8 I don’t own my home, I rent. My colleague owns. We make the same money and pay the same income taxes. The gov uses the taxes to upgrade the roads, and infrastructure in town. My colleague’s equity goes up, so does my landlord’s, because of our tax dollars spent. So he gets richer. My land lord gets richer.
Me? My rent goes up Sensitive_Dig7955 , pexels Report Final score: 124points POST Patti Vance Patti Vance Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago this is something that pisses me off to no end. if you have a person or couple with decent jobs who show through their history that they are good renters but have no other assets or a huge savings, why the hell would a lending agency think they were not a good risk to have a mortgage. renting costs so much more than owning. also, not all apartments have utilities included and, if a person/couple is renting they they already are paying for those kind of things. 28 28points reply View More Replies... View more comments #9 I’ve never had the money to spend on regular dental work so now I’m spending thousands more to fix everything that was neglected
I would like to make an edit and add that a ton of you in the comments have suggested dental tourism and dental schools. Both are great ideas! dayoldhotwing , unsplash Report Final score: 118points POST Cee Mor Cee Mor Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago I just tried a new dentist and it was over 600 for a cleaning...now I have to try out another more affordable dentist to get the fillings done...in about 6 months. 14 14points reply View More Replies... View more comments #10 You meticulously maintain a high mileage used car that is totaled in a car accident that is not your fault. Insurance company will only pay you $1,000 for your car. crizelnitch , pixabay Report Final score: 118points POST Chucky Cheezburger Chucky Cheezburger Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago This sucks even when someone isn't poor. It's such a pain to replace a car for what rip-off...er, I mean insurance company deems your car worth. 34 34points reply View More Replies... View more comments #11 Many banks charge a monthly fee to have an account with a balance under a certain level (e.g. $1500). It's literally a poverty fee. TheFractangle , pexels Report Final score: 117points POST WilvanderHeijden WilvanderHeijden Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 10 months ago Seems that a US bank that would treat their customers like European banks do, would blow all the other US banks out of the water. 45 45points reply View More Replies... View more comments #12 if you cant afford your own laundry machine or an apartment that comes with one it costs like $10 in quarters to do laundry. EVERY TIME. falanian , unsplash Report Final score: 110points POST Jenny Shmurak Jenny Shmurak Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago And that's a luxury too. In my country I've never seen those quarters laundry places. Always thought it was an american movies thing. Also, noone has a washing machine in the basement of apartment buildings. Only in dorms. 21 21points reply View More Replies... View more comments #13 I’m the opposite of poor and I see this every day. Because I have money to always pay my credit card bills fully on time I buy everything with them and wind up with a 2% discount/cash back on everything I buy. This adds up to thousands of $/year. There are tons of things that are discounted if you are rich. One of the sh*ttiest things about our economy monkey22x Report Final score: 106points POST Cactus McCoy Cactus McCoy Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Yeah. Also, being able to buy the good, lasting stuff leads to not spending money on many things like good quality clothing, appliences and tools. Saves a HUGE ammount of money over time. 28 28points reply View more comments #14 How about the fact that homelessness is illegal texas-hippie , pexels Report Final score: 105points POST Caro Caro Caro Caro Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago God the hopelessness. How can you make it illegal if you don't help? WTF is wrong with people. 62 62points reply View More Replies... View more comments #15 Attendance micromanagement at work.
Hear me out.
I am currently at a much higher paying position. It’s salaried. My boss has the mindset that she doesn’t care when things get done just so long as they get done. She’s flexible on when I clock in/out and doesn’t feel the need to track if I’m hitting exactly forty hours a week. (Again, salaried position).
Contrast to past jobs that paid less than half as much. Many of my coworkers took public transit (couldn’t own a car). I could have easily taken public transit, it was one bus and short walk from my house. However. I opted to drive because we would be disciplined for being more than two minutes “tardy” clocking in.
The bus is NOT that reliable, y’all.
So we have multiple workers showing up 10-20 minutes early to sit around with unpaid time so they don’t get docked for being tardy. And the policy was such that three tardies mean you get written up, then it escalates to action, then to termination. It’s real easy to lose your job because your bus route is not reliable. But most of the people taking the bus to work are in the low paying positions that micromanage if you’re two minutes late (even if it’s out of your control).
Bosses keep their thumbs on the low earners and it keeps them there. Schannin Report Final score: 103points POST rspanther rspanther Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago I like to say that the only reliable thing about my public transit is that it is unreliable. 28 28points reply View More Replies... View more comments #16 Only being able to afford the small jar of mayo (or whatever), even though the larger jar is a better deal.
Overdraft fees that charge you money for having no money.
Late fees for not being able to afford your bills.
Having to go to the closest grocery store, even though it may not be the cheapest, because it's on the bus route or within walking distance.
Payday loans
Rent to own stores where you have to pay a ton of money for a couch, but pay weekly klms21 , pexels Report Final score: 88points POST Alice Alice Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Local fb groups here in the UK are a great source of unwanted furniture, where people can offer their unwanted sofas and stuff for someone who might like them. 19 19points reply View More Replies... View more comments #17 And you spend so much time just trying to survive you have little time to improve yourself apathetic_take Report Final score: 86points POST Sakeena Sakeena Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Yes. This hurts so much. 21 21points reply View more comments #18 When I first lived on my own (escaped a bad situation), I bought a splurge...$100 of groceries. I meal prepped, made dozens of bags of frozen prepared veggies etc. I was eating healthy and I felt like I actually just did good for myself. I thought it was a smart move.
I was literally set up for almost two months.
The power went out. My insurance couldn't cover it. I lost so much food. I just saved a few items that were frozen solid.
I cried until I threw up. I eventually had my dad drop off some leftovers but I never told him what happened, I was too embarrassed. Feralcrumpetart Report Final score: 82points POST Dianellian Dianellian Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 10 months ago That’s so sad. You shouldn’t be embarrassed as I’m sure your dad didn’t mind helping you out. 34 34points reply View More Replies... View more comments #19 Not being able to afford preventive medical care leads to huge medical bills later. I’ve seen it numerous times where people put off routine exams/procedures, and then come through the ER and end up with an amputation, or even death, because the illness had progressed so far before they sought treatment. Stoic-Nurse , pexels Report Final score: 81points POST Helen Haley Helen Haley Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Every injury, every cough, every tooth pain is accompanied by panic because it is like having a hole in your pocket. You have no idea how much this is going to cost. But you know it is likely to ruin you. 44 44points reply View More Replies... View more comments #20 40,000 per year before taxes
35,200 after taxes
Rent 1100 × 12 = 13200
Car note 400 × 12 = 4800
Car insurance 200 × 12 = 2400
Utilities, gas for the car, internet 400 x 12 = 4800
Food 400 × 12 = 4800
Total 30,000
These are nice round numbers and I live in one of the "lowest cost of living" states in the US....this also includes 0 entertainment expenses like Netflix, going out with friends, taking a vacation etc.
5200 bucks left over to save for the year easily gets decimated by just 1 or 2 car issues, maybe 1 or 2 doctor/dentist visits, God forbid you have 1 of each Car issue, doctor visit and dentist visit in the same year...
Imagine working 40+ hrs a week just to be able to work 40+ hrs a week and stay alive....nothing more. LibertyEquality Report Final score: 79points POST Marianne Saiso Marianne Saiso Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago I don't really have to imagine that. 31 31points reply View more comments #21 For me, it was moreso the fact that everything was a choice. The mental strain of trying to figure out how to budget $100 when you realistically need $150...it's f*cking horrible.
It leads to bad decisions over time too. I smoked cigarettes because I was always so stressed and cigarettes are expensive. I knew I was wasting money and couldn't really afford it, but it was one of the only things that got me through shifts of hell at work Charvel420 , pexels Report Final score: 78points POST Paula Marowsky Paula Marowsky Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Cigarrettes... alcohol... now you know why poor people get into them 26 26points reply View More Replies... View more comments See Also on Bored Panda Woman Shows How "Harry Potter" Characters Were Supposed To Look According To Book Descriptions (35 Pics) 50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective #22 I overdrafted my account by $.27. The bank charged me $35. My credit score was bad so my interest was worse when getting a car. My credit sucked so I couldn't buy a house so I had to rent for almost double.
Just some of my past examples. Mohican83 , pexels Report Final score: 75points POST Cactus McCoy Cactus McCoy Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago This s**t happens when a country is run like a corporation. 40 40points reply View More Replies... View more comments #23 College loans: spend thirty years paying interest on a college degree because you don't have rich parents. Also if you don't have a college degree, you'll be excluded from nearly all jobs that pay decently.
Freedom of "choice" RealCaseyBlack , pexels Report Final score: 74points POST WilvanderHeijden WilvanderHeijden Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 10 months ago USA: Land of the free, home of the broke. 52 52points reply View More Replies... View more comments #24 Not me personally but my best friend recently got an unpaid internship at a hospital because he needs the experience as an upcoming graduate student in an MPH program.
The hospital required him to be fully vaccinated and to get a sh*t ton of shots. However, they won’t pay for it and if you don’t do it, you will lose your spot. Since he has no insurance, he ended up paying $280 out of pocket to go work for free just so he can build his resume. SMH ! LVucci Report Final score: 74points POST Thorfin Wolfsbane Thorfin Wolfsbane Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago "intern" is the new word for indentured servant, but being an indentured servant was better because room, board, and clothing was provided. 53 53points reply View More Replies... View more comments #25 How abput depression and anxiety caused by financial pressures being 'treated' by a therapist and being charged $75 copay per visit. Then, if the anxiety is bad enough that you don't go, you get a $45 cancellation fee unless you cancel 2 days+ in advance. Self-fueling system. emistal27 Report Final score: 72points POST WilvanderHeijden WilvanderHeijden Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 10 months ago US health care is a for profit system and only aimed at being beneficial for the ones working in the business. It doesn't matter if your treatment makes you better or makes you dead, you will pay the bills. 28 28points reply View more comments #26 If you have a low credit score you have to pay a $300 deposit in order to get power turned on at your place. (In Las Vegas Nevada)
In Vegas there's only one power company NV Energy cella80 , unsplash Report Final score: 70points POST Sakeena Sakeena Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Oo this is a big one. Entergy in the southeast is notorious. And don’t miss a few days out sick and can’t afford your light bill. You gotta get it caught up and pay a reconnect fee. 22 22points reply View more comments #27 We're in the New England states where it's gotten to 15 degrees Fahrenheit overnight. We've been without heat for three weeks now because it will cost us $800 to fill our K1 tank. We don't have the $350 for 100 gallons either. We're currently jacking up our electric bill, risking fire, and risking the safety of us and our cats by using the oven to heat the house. We're also risking our pipes bursting.
All because we can't come up with $350 upfront. Erulastiel , unsplash Report Final score: 66points POST Bill Bill Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Off road diesel is K2 with dye. You only need 5 gallons to run at sub zero for 24 hours from empty. I know lots of people who fill up a 5 gallon gas can every day 22 22points reply View More Replies... View more comments #28 Higher interest rates any time you borrow. Lack of assets to borrow money against. Lower paying jobs are generally harder on a person’s body and lead to more doctor visits and medical bills. Driving a cheap old car means shelling out more money for repairs and fuel than a person driving a newer model. JoeMayoParty , pexels Report Final score: 64points POST Helen Haley Helen Haley Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago My dad freaked out when he heard what my auto loan interest rate was. My credit score wasn't even that bad. 16 16points reply View more comments #29 Friend broke his glasses today. Insurance wants a reeval of his eyes to get new ones, so now he's out a couple hundred for the script and can't work until they're replaced. Also can't drive until he can see. basicwhitelich Report Final score: 59points POST Becky Samuel Becky Samuel Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago What shíthole country is this in? An eye test costs under £20 on the high street. 28 28points reply View More Replies... View more comments #30 Poor people can’t pay for childcare. The wealthy rely on underpaying people to take care of their kids. Meaning it’s easier to have two income households without the penalty of being a parent. Perpetuating the cycle of poverty Parking_Relative_228 Report Final score: 58points POST Sakeena Sakeena Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Then they scoff at childcare professionals wanting increased pay. 24 24points reply View More Replies... View more comments Note: this post originally had 71 images. It’s been shortened to the top 30 images based on user votes. Anyone can write on Bored Panda. Start writing! Follow Bored Panda on Google News! Follow us on Flipboard.com/@boredpanda! Add Your Answer! Not your original work? Add source Publish Change image Upload Photo Ooops! Your image is too large, maximum file size is 8 MB. Upload Upload Edit Image Error occurred when generating embed. Please check link and try again. Render conversation
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Guys, please, something is fundamentally wrong when you have to choose between medical care or rent and when a box of some salty, fatty, sugar laden conveyor belt food is cheaper to buy than vegetables. 19 19points reply Mazer Mazer Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago (edited) Nothing any citizen can do about it. Corporate greed has politicians by the balls, they have no spine to change things. Unfortunately creating your own system when the system is broken usually means doing something illegal which just makes things worse. Voting for a politician interested in Making changes amounts to nothing. There is no political will to change things. Unfortunately this entire scenario creates a weak country with citizens who don’t trust their government…rightly so 8 8points reply Load More Replies... Kristin Ingersoll Kristin Ingersoll Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Yup. The system is overwhelmingly huge and complex. There's nothing we can do. And the poor are so busy trying to keep their heads above water, they certainly don't have the time, not to mention the money, to start a revolution to make huge, systemic change. 1 1point reply Isabella Isabella Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Bullshit. They dopn't want to do things, because it would be hard and get ugly, not that it is not possible. It is. Check how on Iceland people threw away their gov by not going to work for one day - all the ppl in the country did that. 0 0points reply Jessica LanSpe Jessica LanSpe Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Iceland is not the size of the USA. It's possible for a small country like that to make an immediate change, but not the USA. The USA is TOO big for that to be possible quickly. 0 0points reply memyselfandI memyselfandI Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago For reference (from Google): Iceland is approximately 103,000 sq km, while United States is approximately 9,833,517 sq km, making United States 9,447% larger than Iceland. Meanwhile, the population of Iceland is ~350,734 people (332.3 million more people live in United States). 0 0points reply Nickname Nickname Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Fix your country one state at time then, if my people thought it's not worth trying to fight, my country wouldn't exist, the options always will be to suffer, die or win, your choice. 0 0points reply Scarbez Scarbez Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago But that is not true! That is the point. Do you think a country would be stable if a large proportion of the population were suffering these conditions?! It is a subset of the population. Yes, when it happens it is bad but it is not that common. Come on, there would be riots every weekend -2 -2points reply WilvanderHeijden WilvanderHeijden Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 10 months ago This is a depressing list of how a dystopian society looks like and how it is to live in one. But do keep voting for politicians who rather see you dead than earning a livable wage, telling you that you're a lazy POS if you refuse to work for less than a livable wage. 10 10points reply Two_rolling_black_eyes Two_rolling_black_eyes Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago The rich get what they want in politics because they have the time to ask for it. Karen can go to the town hall meetings to make homelessness illegal because she's not on a bus between jobs trying to avoid homelessness. A doctor can give money to a lobbyist to sit in a senator's office just waiting for a meeting while his patient who gave them that money doesn't have the time to sit in that same senator's office. 6 6points reply Load More Replies... Honu Honu Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Yep. And when Republican legislators pass laws making it harder to vote, they know that the people who are suffering the most from this dystopia are the ones who will be most affected. They need those extended voting hours and mail in voting because their jobs won't let them pop out for a couple hours in the middle of the day to go vote like my cushy, white collar office job will. Restricting voting has become the central focus of the Republican party because they know the majority of Americans do not support them. The only way they keep power is by targeting certain people to keep them from voting. 1 1point reply Patti Vance Patti Vance Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago yes!!!! i have a family member that is convinced that the reason so many lower paying positions are screaming for help now is because they are getting government handout in some form. no, it is because during the lockdown people learned that they didn't need to buy some of the things they thought were essential. they took the time to get online education and are looking for something better. they have the ability to look for better wages because now they can actively job search when before they would have had to take time off work. or, they may have thought that idea they had to be self employed but didn't have the courage to take that step away from a paycheck was provided to them to get it started. and, yes, we need to get the old predominantly white men out of congress who have made a career out of fleecing the people with their lies during election time only to ignore them once their seat is secure. so many of those politicians are lawyers, doctors, who are the lazy ones. 3 3points reply Got Myself 4 Dwarves Got Myself 4 Dwarves Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Thank f**k I live in Scotland, yeah a lot of these still apply but I have zero concerns about my utilities being cut off, medical bills, decent public transport, free education, free school meals in primary school....the list could go on. I'd rather eat my own toes than live in the society that's developed in a so called developed country 9 9points reply Load More Comments POST Bill Evs Bill Evs Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago (edited) I hate saying this as I don't really like all these "look how bad America is" articles but it's obvious a lot (as in the majority) of these posts are from Americans. Guys, please, something is fundamentally wrong when you have to choose between medical care or rent and when a box of some salty, fatty, sugar laden conveyor belt food is cheaper to buy than vegetables. 19 19points reply Mazer Mazer Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago (edited) Nothing any citizen can do about it. Corporate greed has politicians by the balls, they have no spine to change things. Unfortunately creating your own system when the system is broken usually means doing something illegal which just makes things worse. Voting for a politician interested in Making changes amounts to nothing. There is no political will to change things. Unfortunately this entire scenario creates a weak country with citizens who don’t trust their government…rightly so 8 8points reply Load More Replies... Kristin Ingersoll Kristin Ingersoll Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Yup. The system is overwhelmingly huge and complex. There's nothing we can do. And the poor are so busy trying to keep their heads above water, they certainly don't have the time, not to mention the money, to start a revolution to make huge, systemic change. 1 1point reply Isabella Isabella Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Bullshit. They dopn't want to do things, because it would be hard and get ugly, not that it is not possible. It is. Check how on Iceland people threw away their gov by not going to work for one day - all the ppl in the country did that. 0 0points reply Jessica LanSpe Jessica LanSpe Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Iceland is not the size of the USA. It's possible for a small country like that to make an immediate change, but not the USA. The USA is TOO big for that to be possible quickly. 0 0points reply memyselfandI memyselfandI Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago For reference (from Google): Iceland is approximately 103,000 sq km, while United States is approximately 9,833,517 sq km, making United States 9,447% larger than Iceland. Meanwhile, the population of Iceland is ~350,734 people (332.3 million more people live in United States). 0 0points reply Nickname Nickname Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Fix your country one state at time then, if my people thought it's not worth trying to fight, my country wouldn't exist, the options always will be to suffer, die or win, your choice. 0 0points reply Scarbez Scarbez Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago But that is not true! That is the point. Do you think a country would be stable if a large proportion of the population were suffering these conditions?! It is a subset of the population. Yes, when it happens it is bad but it is not that common. Come on, there would be riots every weekend -2 -2points reply WilvanderHeijden WilvanderHeijden Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 10 months ago This is a depressing list of how a dystopian society looks like and how it is to live in one. But do keep voting for politicians who rather see you dead than earning a livable wage, telling you that you're a lazy POS if you refuse to work for less than a livable wage. 10 10points reply Two_rolling_black_eyes Two_rolling_black_eyes Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago The rich get what they want in politics because they have the time to ask for it. Karen can go to the town hall meetings to make homelessness illegal because she's not on a bus between jobs trying to avoid homelessness. A doctor can give money to a lobbyist to sit in a senator's office just waiting for a meeting while his patient who gave them that money doesn't have the time to sit in that same senator's office. 6 6points reply Load More Replies... Honu Honu Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Yep. And when Republican legislators pass laws making it harder to vote, they know that the people who are suffering the most from this dystopia are the ones who will be most affected. They need those extended voting hours and mail in voting because their jobs won't let them pop out for a couple hours in the middle of the day to go vote like my cushy, white collar office job will. Restricting voting has become the central focus of the Republican party because they know the majority of Americans do not support them. The only way they keep power is by targeting certain people to keep them from voting. 1 1point reply Patti Vance Patti Vance Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago yes!!!! i have a family member that is convinced that the reason so many lower paying positions are screaming for help now is because they are getting government handout in some form. no, it is because during the lockdown people learned that they didn't need to buy some of the things they thought were essential. they took the time to get online education and are looking for something better. they have the ability to look for better wages because now they can actively job search when before they would have had to take time off work. or, they may have thought that idea they had to be self employed but didn't have the courage to take that step away from a paycheck was provided to them to get it started. and, yes, we need to get the old predominantly white men out of congress who have made a career out of fleecing the people with their lies during election time only to ignore them once their seat is secure. so many of those politicians are lawyers, doctors, who are the lazy ones. 3 3points reply Got Myself 4 Dwarves Got Myself 4 Dwarves Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Thank f**k I live in Scotland, yeah a lot of these still apply but I have zero concerns about my utilities being cut off, medical bills, decent public transport, free education, free school meals in primary school....the list could go on. 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