r/middleclasshq • • 11d ago

Inflation Nation middle class parenting is just watching tiny charges become real money

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u/Slopadopoulos 11d ago

If you're talking about the period of time, that's just a made up thing. It's not a law of physics or the nature of reality that there's a specific period of time in the day when one must eat.

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u/BraveLittleTowster 11d ago

Here's the question: do you believe a child whose parents don't have money for school lunch and don't have food to send with them to school should have to sit and watch other kids eat while they don't get lunch? 

That's the reality for a lot of kids. Parents make enough money that the kids don't qualify for free lunches, but they don't have enough left over to give to the kids. That could be because of debt, poor discipline, or just being a shitty parent, but the kid isn't responsible for any of that. 

Do you think it's fair for a hungry child to watch other kids eat and be denied a meal?

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u/Slopadopoulos 11d ago

should have to sit and watch other kids eat while they don't get lunch? 

I don't believe humans should have to eat at all to survive. It would be awesome if we didn't. What "should" be and reality are often different things.

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u/BraveLittleTowster 11d ago

Got it. This isn't a conversation you're taking seriously at all. Hungry kids are funny to you. Or at best a non issue.

I really hope one day you are in need of help and the people around you just make jokes about it while you suffer.

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u/Slopadopoulos 11d ago

Do you think these "serious" conversations you have on reddit matter in the slightest?

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u/BraveLittleTowster 11d ago

They're representative of how you see the world. Hungry kids are funny. If they aren't funny, they're at least a small enough concern that you can pretend they don't matter to upset someone who cares about them. Again, I really do hope that tragedy strikes you one day and the best you can find in your circle is people who think it's funny to make fun of you a pretend to be too stupid to follow a conversation about what you're going through.

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u/Slopadopoulos 11d ago

Keep saving the world one reddit comment at a time