And this isn’t a rebuttal to you, butI’ve never had an apple product. I’m in Ohio so avocados are usually terrible, a losing gamble. I do have a refrigerator and a microwave, I think everyone who isn’t homeless does. They’re both partially broken though. Also my part of Ohio has no bike lanes or sidewalks or public transportation, so a car is actually the one thing most homeless people here do have. If you don’t have a car you have to be really good friends with someone who does.
I’m guessing you’re in Europe, I’ve lived in Germany and the Netherlands and visited a lot of the rest. Not having room for a microwave is not surprising. You almost can’t get a hotel room in the US that doesn’t have one. Much of our frozen food only has microwave directions. It’s more common to not have a stove/oven.
Airs pretty idiotic right? That entire “argument” is all sadly pulled from various right wing sources, at times arguing that people aren’t actually “poor” because they have microwaves and refrigerators. They blame millennials for eating avocado toast because we don’t deserve it because we haven’t raised a family yet. Truly insane shit.
I’ve personally assisted giving free microwaves to at least a dozen people, and anyone can buy a used one for like $10. And a handful of free refrigerators, also available used super cheap. The avocado toast thing is dumb, but I do have a broke ass 20 year old living in my house for free who will spend $40 on door dash for one meal for herself even though I gave her a car. I have paid for delivery like three times in the last 20 years, I can’t afford that shit. Sometimes people do waste money when they’re not struggling just to have a roof over their head and food in their belly.
There’s a difference between “broke” and poor. Yeah, some young people are not financially conscious. But it’s still different to what these right wing assholes are actually talking about. They’re trying to conflate brokeness and poverty, they’re trying to paint young irresponsibility with the brush of “poverty,” when in reality what happened is there was a massive wealth transfer up-class, and there are fewer opportunities and less wealth for younger generations because since the 80s there has been a reversal of wealth distribution. Before the era of deregulation, we had the longest sustained period of economic growth in US history—but we, starting with Reagan, deregulated everything that led to it. Leading to the money that was being distributed and bolstering the middle class funnel backwards, up to the top, and we got billionaires and multibillionaires instead. That isnt solved by not buying avocado toast or not getting delivery. It’s solved by dismantling the structure that is so irreparably broken that we can’t fix it without top-down violence threatening those of us that want to.
Oh I wasn’t arguing that the system isn’t broken. I make less today than I did 25 years ago and everything costs at least double. I don’t just blame Reagan though. We’ve had plenty of other Republicans and Democrats who could have made changes. Obama might have had the best opportunity for a year or so. But both parties have sold out to the owner class.
I appreciate your comment lol, it’s great.
And this isn’t a rebuttal to you, butI’ve never had an apple product. I’m in Ohio so avocados are usually terrible, a losing gamble. I do have a refrigerator and a microwave, I think everyone who isn’t homeless does. They’re both partially broken though. Also my part of Ohio has no bike lanes or sidewalks or public transportation, so a car is actually the one thing most homeless people here do have. If you don’t have a car you have to be really good friends with someone who does.
Psh, I don’t have a microwave! That’s why one day, I’ll be a billionare dining my yacht, while you’ll be stuck eating your microwave-food at home.
(I don’t have space for it in my kitchen)
I’m guessing you’re in Europe, I’ve lived in Germany and the Netherlands and visited a lot of the rest. Not having room for a microwave is not surprising. You almost can’t get a hotel room in the US that doesn’t have one. Much of our frozen food only has microwave directions. It’s more common to not have a stove/oven.
https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/foxs-your-world-does-segment-highlighting-poor-americans-ownership-refrigerators-other
Airs pretty idiotic right? That entire “argument” is all sadly pulled from various right wing sources, at times arguing that people aren’t actually “poor” because they have microwaves and refrigerators. They blame millennials for eating avocado toast because we don’t deserve it because we haven’t raised a family yet. Truly insane shit.
I’ve personally assisted giving free microwaves to at least a dozen people, and anyone can buy a used one for like $10. And a handful of free refrigerators, also available used super cheap. The avocado toast thing is dumb, but I do have a broke ass 20 year old living in my house for free who will spend $40 on door dash for one meal for herself even though I gave her a car. I have paid for delivery like three times in the last 20 years, I can’t afford that shit. Sometimes people do waste money when they’re not struggling just to have a roof over their head and food in their belly.
There’s a difference between “broke” and poor. Yeah, some young people are not financially conscious. But it’s still different to what these right wing assholes are actually talking about. They’re trying to conflate brokeness and poverty, they’re trying to paint young irresponsibility with the brush of “poverty,” when in reality what happened is there was a massive wealth transfer up-class, and there are fewer opportunities and less wealth for younger generations because since the 80s there has been a reversal of wealth distribution. Before the era of deregulation, we had the longest sustained period of economic growth in US history—but we, starting with Reagan, deregulated everything that led to it. Leading to the money that was being distributed and bolstering the middle class funnel backwards, up to the top, and we got billionaires and multibillionaires instead. That isnt solved by not buying avocado toast or not getting delivery. It’s solved by dismantling the structure that is so irreparably broken that we can’t fix it without top-down violence threatening those of us that want to.
Oh I wasn’t arguing that the system isn’t broken. I make less today than I did 25 years ago and everything costs at least double. I don’t just blame Reagan though. We’ve had plenty of other Republicans and Democrats who could have made changes. Obama might have had the best opportunity for a year or so. But both parties have sold out to the owner class.