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[–] 98 points 2 years ago (4 children)

There is one thing for uber wealthy people to act poor but I dont care if a wealthy person finds happiness in a frugal lifestyle. Sharing in cultures is vital to the human experience.

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  • [–] 40 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    The crazy thing is that i i were filthy rich, the only thing that would change is that i wouldn't go to work anymore, and i'd probably invest in some sort of farm/weekly market where you can buy actually fresh and cheap veggies and things like that and i wouldn't have to care if it makes money. So i totally get that aspect of it. But pretending to be a complete hippie and selling that lifestyle while you're clearly not, just seems weird

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Farmers markets, there usually held on weekends around here, get fresh fruit and vegetables from local growers.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    There's this weird in between that many sister in law lives in. She buys everything at thrift stores but it's those trendy super expensive thrift stores lol

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    trendy super expensive thrift stores

    This truly is the darkest timeline. Definitely the stupidest 🤦

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Buffalo Exchange and similar stores like that are between thrift stores and consignment stores, they purchase their products either from customers for store credit or cherry pick at real thrift stores then mark it up to sell at the trendy store. Everything there has to meet a specific aesthetic.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I don't disagree with your sentiment taken in a vacuum, but gentrification (of housing and activities in general) is 100% a real thing and is almost always due to rich people trying to live a "frugal lifestyle." Idk man, shit just sucks all around

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah, I get that but the complaint that these people with wealthy parents get to focus on art and lifestyle is a failure of the system not the person.

    We should all be able to do that but only the wealthy can, so spread the wealth yeah but dont hate on arts and independent thought, trying new things and seeking an environment you enjoy.

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  • [+] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)
  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago*

    amen. this is my biggest beef as well.

    i grew up poor. i am doing well. but the people aroppund me act like it's a moral failing of my own that I didn't spend 2-5 years backpacking around the world on my parents dime. I am 'uncultured' and 'unambitious' is what I constantly hear. OK... sorry I had to pay debts and build a career from the bottom because my parents didn't give me a six figure job at their company...

    i like my life a lot. i feel like i have 'made it'. but a lot of folks were born into more wealth than I will ever have... and for folks like this... my life is unworthy and pathetic. I've literally been told that 'your space at uni was wasted' by these rich pricks because they think they deserve more than me for their luck at the birth lottery.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    you missed the point. they aren't frugal.

    they just look frugal.

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  • [–] 70 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Had a real waking up moment last week leaving one of my favorite venues seeing the band Chat Pile in a crowd of crusty, unwashed, punks, only to look at the parking lot after the show and see it filled with current model year Teslas, Mercedes, etc.

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  • [+] 36 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 42 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That's just called Burning Man

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    [–] 32 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You'll never live like common people. You'll never do whatever common people do.

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    [–] 18 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    They say you can always spot them by their teeth.

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  • [–] 31 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    And their expensive dye jobs and tattoos. I saw a woman panhandling downtown the other day, wearing brand new Asics, with full sleeve tattoos and bright purple hair. Fuck that honestly, i wish I had tattoo money. Not only that, they see you pushing a stroller and beg for money. Every cent I have belongs to my kids, you entitled, fake poor pricks. The wealthy Western kids that Panhandle while traveling are by far the most deplorable though

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    this is the culture of most of my city. lots of people in very expensive clothes, beards, and etc that make them look like semi homeless bums. who work for a tech company and are banking six figures.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Tech people look like semi homeless bums because we don't know how to dress ourselves. We aren't buying expensive clothes. We're spending our money on hardware, goofy nerdy shit, or investing in stonks for some reason.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    I don’t give my money to anyone, usually. Except specifically some nader chasers I’ve
    followed for years. They’re out there losing windshields for my enjoyment. That’s it tho.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Now thats what I call appropriating.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The rich have always imitated the rest of us.

    Tattoos used to see you barred from many military and civil service organizations. Now ink is considered cosmopolitan and they're allowed.

    Low-income service workers used to occupy the top floors of residential buildings, and even set up makeshift accomodation on building roofs. They called them penthouses.

    Look at the shift in treatment of marijuana in the United States over the last decade.

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    [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    like half of the Grateful Dead tour on the late 80s and early 90s

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    [+] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)
  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    We used to use the term in the mid 90s to describe the kids hanging out in Berkeley begging for cigarette money, then getting picked up in Mercs to get driven home in the hills. They were usually white kids with dreads.

    They were dumbass kids. I'm sure the current batch are dumasses too I was never a fan, but in the scheme of things, there is a lot worse out there.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Papa Meat!!!

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