That's a whole other level of poverty, but if you can buy a loaf of bread and a jar of jam at a Walmart, you should be good for a week's worth of lunches without a fridge. And water's better for you. If you're too poor for that, you'd better have a farm plot and access to a clean stream or you're going to die. Then again, that's 'rural poor'. In a city you don't even have those options, so below a certain threshold it's beg or die.
When I was (relatively) poor, I spent a lot more on day-to-day stuff than I do now. I had no long term view because I couldn't imagine ever being able to save up enough to matter. Luckily, my family had sufficient money to carry me until I got it together and caught a break, but for an awful lot of people that isn't an option.
Outsourcing your American security to India. That tells you right there Google isn't even trying to hide that it doesn't really care about data security.
Presumably the business unit that is responsible for data mining and monetization will remain in the US under tight control.
Who should get trained? Whenever we have articles about forced computer science training in the US and coding being a required subject you same idiots claim it's not needed. Meanwhile, developers are pulling in 6 figure salaries
Then it snowballs - why bother brown-bagging it, just go to McD's and save the hassle.
Real easy for someone to say "why don't they brown bag it" without asking if they EVEN HAVE ACCESS TO A WORKING REFRIGERATOR btw... just a thought...
The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.
Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.
But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.
-Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms
It's easy to see it only one way, when it's both. I think it's about hope.
If someone never has enough to succeed, they stop seeing the utility in frugality. Why save when you can't even make it to the next pay? Then it snowballs - why bother brown-bagging it, just go to McD's and save the hassle. You're broke anyway, right?
The amount of sacrifice required for someone without money or education to catch up with someone who has them is more than any of us with money would likely be willing to make... but few people who have never had to worry about putting food on the table or finding a place to sleep can imagine that. It's just obviously so easy, the poor should just do it!
Broadband is the modern equivalent of having a telephone line. It's a necessity for seeking employment, receiving communications, sending communications.
I've known a lot of poor people. The vast majority of them aren't poor because things cost so much, they're poor because they make poor choices.
I've known a lot of shitty fucking lying-ass crap silver spoon retards like you who never worked an honest day in their lives, and my advice to you is the same: shove it WAY up your inbred, entitled fucking ass. BEING POOR IS EXPENSIVE. Our society is LITTERED with traps designed to make it so that the poor can never "make better choices."
You know, the difference between this company and the Titanic is that the Titanic had paying customers.
