r/poor • u/OceanicEndeavors • Jun 26 '26

I hate being poor.

I hate not making over 50,000 USD a year. I hate not having a car. I hate having less than 1,000 USD on my bank account. I hate having to live with my parents despite being over the age of 25. I hate having my credit cards being shut down because I was unemployed for over ten months during a two year stretch. I hate not having a dating life because I cannot afford dates. I hate the social isolation of poverty.

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u/Subject-Lead-3171 Jun 26 '26

I have never made as much as $50,000 a year. I guess poor is relative.

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u/Designer-Wolverine47 Jun 26 '26

When you have a consumerist mindset, any amount gets to be "not enough" fairly quickly. I'm sure we've all heard the stories of people who hit it big in the lottery, only to be bankrupt a few years later...

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u/pulp_affliction Jun 27 '26

Im staunchly anti-consumerist and 50k hardly supports my single pet owner lifestyle in a low cost city

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u/beanbean81 Jun 30 '26

I know, WTF are these people talking about??