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briandmyers  ·  3274 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How poor people stay poor

Being frugal (when you're not really poor) is only playing at being poor, it's nothing at all like the real thing. Real poverty is a mountain of stress because your life is literally on the line, every single day. One day of bad luck and you can go from 'poor' to 'on the street' - and from there, the next step down is 'dead'. It's a lack of control that you really can't imagine if you've never been poor.