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- ChrisMarshallNYOne convenient fiction that wealthy people (in the US) tell themselves, is that poor people are "lazy"; and that's why they're poor.I know lots of folks without a pot to piss in, or a window to throw it out, and not one single one, is "lazy." In fact, a few have more than one (difficult) job.I am old enough to see a few of them getting into the back nine, with no cushion.I'm extremely grateful for what I have.
- krupanWow, I didn't realize how much I missed blog posts like this. Is there any way we can get the version of the Internet where people posted like this on their personal blogs back? It's the reason sites like hacker news came to exist, you couldn't just scroll social media to find stuff, you had to sort of stumble upon (that used to be a website too, didn't it?) stuff like this and pass it around word of mouth. It was awesome.
- delichonA friend was a property manager in Sacramento. His biggest headache was replacing the electrical equipment thieves would demolish to get to the copper, that currently pays ~$5/lb. If people are really working this hard for steel at $0.04/lb, then transformers and air conditioners will have to be installed in vaults.
- mikeaskew4We have them in Chicago, too. Call streets and san when you got something too big to fit in the can? Nah.Also nearly got a job in Pittsburgh this summer…
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- slopinthebagI fear FIFTEEN CENTS A POUND is going to become a new vocal stim I will spam 50 times a day.