poverty_finance

1. find who bought these
2. find where they used them
3. ???
4. profit!

It's not much, but I eventually probably made $50 by doing it for a few hours one day and signing up for a bunch. It's probably something you can look up like every 6 months and find new ones to sign up for. Every little bit helps!

I HATE THE ANTICHRIST

Edit: i'm stupid it's satire

Author makes a lot of good points in there, stuff I didnt know.

Yet, if we had communism - or even used to have communism at one point - here, most people would be able to own their own home. I bet the US statistics include mortgagees as "owners" or the numbers would be even lower.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_home_ownership_rate

Drive to work in my Blackrock sedan, eat at Blackrock Ristorante, shop at the local Blackrock supermarket. Blacknet keeps me in touch with my friends and families on other quadrants. Blackrock news and entertainment has endless channels to choose from. We like to vacation at the Blackrock ski resort in Aspe, or Club Black in the Mediterranean.

Larry Fink and Steve Schwarzman are our benevolent overlords. Praise be to them for saving society.

Loan increased 512% over fourteen years.

Greatest Country In The World ™

https://www.newyorker.com/news/us-journal/the-aging-student-debtors-of-america

So, after counting up my dwinding bank account due to a series of unexpected expenditures, I have barely enough to get by on rent and utilities and so on. I also need to shore up just a few hundo (maybe $200 and change) in the next 30 days or less. Just for food and general existence. Work will probably not grant me enough overtime to get that and I can't really put it off until next month's payday anyhow, so I'm thinking about the dreaded Second Job option. I have the pathfinding skills of an army officer so delivery gig work is out. Beyond looking for more fixed labor such as part-time work at shops on weekends/evenings I'm kind of out of ideas (and I'd be in much the same boat as simply working overtime at my current job and with less hassle).

Any ideas appreciated

:doomjak: fuck this country

Use 2-4x leverage. And wait for Tuesday. Thousands of dollars of free money taken from the cryptobros. Lel tfw I am digging myself out of poverty with cryptobro tears. Housing market is crashing in all the metro areas in america as well as Canada and china. Things are about to get so bad that betting against magic internet money will get u actually finically stable. 2000 dollars can easily make another 2000 in a day in these conditions. Shorting 🌽 failson at 1250 the other day netted me around 5000 dollars so far.

Long story short, fell on hard times, got evicted from my apartment, living with mom and her husband, mom and her husband give me a list of rules to follow which include: paying rent, keeping the room clean, I can’t be inside the house when they’re not home, they have to see my bank transactions to make sure I’m saving to move out, they have to monitor my medicine intake (I take antidepressants) to make sure I’m taking them. When I asked what the rules were for they just said it’s their house and their rules.

Did it for about a month and then realized the rules weren’t going to work for me, Mom asked to see my bank transactions and I said no, said I felt like it was weird, I started leaving to go to work and her husband came out of his room to yell at me, I yelled back bc I’m not going to take that shit, walked out and went to work. That night they said I had until the end of this month to move out.

Last night texted my dad and asked if he could drive me to work, I normally take the bus but wanted to talk to him. Dad tells mom I texted him to drive me because I don’t have enough money to take the bus (never told him that). When I get home mom demands to see my bank account, I say no again, they say because I’m lying, I get up to leave the situation, her husband follows me to my room, I try to shut the door but he stands in the doorway and pushes through, then when he gets through he pushes me and tbf it was lightly but it was clear he was trying to provoke me into fighting him. I didn’t, I just yelled at him, said he was psycho, he threatened to call the cops to come kick me out, I said to call them, he didn’t, mom defends him, asks why I can’t show my bank account, tell her bc it’s none of her business, we just argue until they leave the room at that point.

Talked to my dad this morning, he took their side, said he didn’t believe my version of events, said no one in the family saw it my way. I said at the end of the month after I left I wasn’t going to talk to either of them again and I didn’t want them in my life. Just for context I’ve never been close to my dad at all.

Now I’m scared to go back there tonight, scared it’s going to escalate further again or they’ll just try to kick me out and I’ll be homeless, I have no one to help me and I don’t know what to do. I talked to my therapist, he got me an appointment with a place for housing resources but the appointment isn’t until the end of the month. I thought about going to a homeless shelter but all of them here are Christian ones that make you do Bible study and shit, and the one secular shelter is the one my mom works at. I don’t have money for a motel. I’m not here to beg or anything, just needed to vent and also am I the asshole here?

So first off, I understand that Mark Cuban is a snake and a baby eater and I normally would never trust a service like this, but money has gotten really tight for me lately and if this was legit it would make life so much easier. I just want to make sure that I'm not buying fentanyl laced smarties thinking that my pharmaceutical issues are solved.

I saw this as a blip on one of my social media news feeds and figured it would be a good idea to share it, b/c somehow I feel like this probably hasn't been advertised very widely.

Household income requirements to qualify can be found here. If you don't qualify, reach out to those in your life who might or share with local community orgs to help get the word out.

There are 2 benefit options as I understand it:

1. Reimbursement of up to $30 for your internet plan
2. Some ISPs have signed on to agree to provide internet plans at $30 USD to eligible households, which is then fully covered by the $30 ACP subsidy.

There is also an assistance program of $100 USD toward a personal computer (desktop, laptop, tablet). These must be purchased through participating providers (link here ). There is a "copay" involved with this one, but I haven't looked into the specifics.

Instructions for how to apply to both are on the site.

It's ridiculous. If I don't have "Autopay" on my cell bill, they charge me an additional $20 a month (nearly doubling it). I think they charge an additional fee if you want a paper bill actually mailed to you, but you are free to print it at your own expense (how kind of them /s).

Oh, and now telecoms are thinking of bringing back data limits when they roll out 6G. https://www.lightreading.com/climate-change/could-6g-mark-return-to-usage-based-pricing-/a/d-id/777099?

Credit cards also hassling me whenever I login to tell me to sign up for autopay and paperless billing. I know they DGAF about the environment, the motivation for the paperless is to eliminate any actual employees and raise the profit margin. Legally, banks have to send you a paper statement and bill if you request it, and my guess is that if they get enough people to do the "paperless" option they will lobby the government to get rid of this requirement, then they can do whatever they want to customers with no paper trail.

CHICAGO — Residents can now apply to the Chicago Resilient Communities Pilot, which will provide households with $500 per month.

Applications for the program opened 9 a.m. Monday. The deadline to apply is 11:59 p.m. May 13. Eligible residents who apply at any point during this period will be entered into a lottery, with the program’s participants picked in May, according to a city news release

Click here to go to the application page

Households that get picked to participate in the pilot will receive $500 per month for one year, according to the city. There will be 5,000 low-income households in the pilot

Eligibility requirements:

Applicants must be a Chicago resident.

Applicants must be 18 or older.

Applicants must have experienced an economic hardship from COVID-19.

Applicants must have a household income at or below 250 percent of the federal poverty level

Only one applicant per household can be entered into the lottery, according to the city. The program is meant to help people — particularly low-income residents — with financial support as the economy recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic.

More information is available online.The program will be administered by GiveDirectly, a nonprofit.

Interested residents can sign up online to get updates on the program.

Went to donate blood plasma today to get some money and they said something had expired because it’s been a while, so they have to process me as a new donor, and they don’t have the staff for that today lol. So anyway I’ve got negative $30 in my bank account after I tried making a loan payment and it hit me with NSF fee . It’s so very frustrating never having anything.

I don't think I've managed to get much lysine, but I'm getting food from a deli today, so hopefully it will include some cheese. Other than that it's been pretty complete, nutritionally speaking and I'll probably only spend about $35 to eat for the week.

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and "is particularly timely as many Americans are leaving jobs to seek better pay, benefits and corporate cultures."

It's a :LIB: source but some of this may check out and be relatable.

I've found a decently cheap place online to get new glasses made (no link/name only because I don't want this post to be a plug). But my most recent prescription is like four years old, from one of those expensive eye places. Where do I get a new prescription that's accurate (maybe including bifocals) without paying out the wazoo? Is Wal-Mart the only option?

Thanks in advance for your experiences.

I feel like the bizarre, nonsense logic of capitalism does a lot to obscure how much of a difference even a small increase in wages can make for people. Like, many people may see it as, a $1 raise for someone making $10/hr is the equivalent of a $2 raise to someone making $20/hr. But this is totally wrong.

The problem is that this accept the capitalistic logic in which everything is a commodity and all desires are the same and equal. You get your paycheck, and you may choose to spend it on food, video games, shelter, Funko Pops, you know, whatever you want. Obviously, this is a false equivalence. A certain standard of living is necessary just to survive and remain healthy enough to work. Since that standard of living is a prerequisite to working, treating it as just another option of what luxuries to buy makes no sense.

Rather, since people will have to spend a certain amount of money on necessities, then we can treat that money as earmarked from the moment they collect their paycheck. Which means that, rather that saying, "You get paid $10/hr," from another perspective, we can say, "Your boss provides you with room and board and transportation, and then an additional $1/hr." I know these numbers aren't super accurate, but just for the example to get the concept, if we say that $9 is what you need to survive, then at $10/hr you're really making "Necessities + $1/hr," and an increase from $10 to $11 is not merely a 10% raise - it's double what you were making before (after necessities).

The cost to provide the basic necessities does not increase as people get wealthier (contrary to what many economists seem to think), so you can subtract the same amount from the $20/hr wage and see that that person makes "Necessities + $11/hr." To get the same doubling of discretionary spending as a $1 raise at $10, you would have to go from $20 to $33. Which is fucking wild. As far as I can tell the biggest challenge to this is defining the cost of necessities, which can vary from place to place, but otherwise it sees to check out, conceptually.

The lesson here is that the law of diminishing returns is way more powerful than people give it credit for, and that a job that pays even a little bit more can make a big difference for a lot of people.

Same milk same store has gone from 2.75 a gallon to 6.00

Chicken breast 5-6 per pack to 11-13, unable to tell price per pound but I believe they have started adding more water/packaging to meat

Can't compare jalapeño or habanero prices because they haven't been in stock this year yet :D

Onions 1.99 per bag to 3.99

Frozen spinach 2.50 to 4.50, also size has been reduced

Please libz, tell me again how inflation is only ~8% per year.

It's not good folks. £2.2k to fix it all. Every molar is needs filling. Wisdom tooth is decaying badly and causing pain and needs to be removed.

Any advice how to break this down or make it cheaper? I've been trying to get into an NHS dentist but not a single place is accepting patients within travellable distance :sadness-abysmal: