@Lali1 wrote:
@proudlyfromNJ wrote:
@Lali1 wrote:
I also find it hard to imagine if your family is starving why you won't give up on some of the expenses you have that are not urgent needs. I have seen many people asking everyone they know for help meanwhile they have not given up one thing that costs them money. Cable tv, streaming services, etc.. Used to be people would give up everything before they asked for help. And would take any job they could get to put food on the table.
That said I'm sure some people are truly doing their best and still struggling. But times are much different and some people think they can't live without some specific material things.
@Lali1 I haven't seen anyone asking for help. These must be people you know if you know they haven't given up anything. How do people know all this? Are they at food banks in a Mercedes talking on iPhones? I'm sure I am missing something.
Mercedes really? No I mentioned the things that most people have that they can and should give up if they are struggling to pay bills. I have empathy for those who are struglling to survive but struggling is not always the same from one person to another. Not being able to get your nails done or you hair highlighted is not a true struggle.
You're kidding right? There has been a lot of complaining here about not getting hair highlighted and nails done. Lots of folks in this forum consider themselves to be suffering intolerably when they can't do it. If it's painful for them, I'd imagine doing without is painful for everybody else too.
When you pay it forward and buy the next person in line's coffee at Starbucks or Dunkins, you do realize that that person is not suffering deeply from being otherwise unable to get a coffee, right? We do nice things to be nice because we want a nice world for ourselves and others. It's a more pleasant way to live.
I don't demand that someone be homeless and naked with ribs showing before I want to help them. That would be kind of sick and taking pleasure in another's suffering, in my opinion.
ETA: If you want the economy to recover, putting more money out in circulation does help. If I give money to a family member who is struggling, they will use some of it in their community, increasing the money flow in the area, helping the local businesses. If enough families have to cut back completely, those businesses suddenly don't get paid and have to close, putting the families who own them into the same dire situation. It can spiral downwards indefinitely if you want it to.
And using examples of conmen and criminals is kind of out of place. There are also awful people who abuse their positions in charities to commit fraud and abuse the people who go to them for help. That has nothing to do with anything. It's just a fact of life that there are grifters in all walks of life, it's not an excuse to be apathetic or to join them.
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