• peregrin5@piefed.social
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      1 month ago

      in what world do you live in where $4k is not that much. i make a solid 6 figures and $4.3k is nearly my monthly income after taxes

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      Yeah stealing from random people to “survive” is not okay.

      This isn’t stealing food from a store this is taking money from everyday people’s trying to rent an apartment

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      Firstly, she does it because she’s a piece of shit.

      Secondly, if it was about survival, like you suggest, then why is she calling it a passive income in such a gloating casual fashion?
      Passive income, at least to me, means secondary and unnecessary.

      Thirdly, she’s a piece of shit.

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            Heey, so I also had similar thoughts when I was living by $300/mo, but it’s really, really not much. Here’s the short breakdown

            • rent. Rent is sky-high in places like Berlin, London, Paris, the US, and a lot of other places. You can find a studio apt for like $400/mo in a poor place

            • food. Earning $4k/mo means a lot of work and cooking is not an option. If you rent a cheap apartment, chances are you have a poor kitchen. So it adds $400 per person a month

            • emergency. If your partner loses a job or a close relative gets something like cancer, you start spending much more. I had both, unfortunately

                • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world
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                  Are you trying to rub it in or something? $4000 isn’t much to you, good for you. Others disagree, and there’s no sense arguing what somebody poor would do if they needed to suddenly spend a lot of money. What’s the point of that?

                  It’s not like the idea hasn’t occurred to us. The fear of such an event is already in our heads all the time. The honest answer most people could give is: I really don’t know.