Video Games being on the list is hilarious. Ever since the death of the arcade, those are some of the least expensive things I buy for how long I use them. Paid $20 for Factorio, Dyson Sphere Program, Terraria, and Vintage Story. I have thousands of hours in the first three and around 500 hours in VS.
Just remember, we could house every single person on earth when it doesn't concern capitalism. We make double the amount of food every day to feed every person on earth every day and we toss but still have homeless and hungry. Just remember that.
Don't forget eating food will generally make you poor, and renting a cardboard box on the side of the road will cost you $10,000 with a $3,000 go fuck yourself fee
I get what you mean, but there is hiking, surfing, video games if you pirate, tons of hobbies cost very little long-term or reduce already existing expenses, like cooking or riding a bicycle/motorcycle instead of driving (assuming you go all in and don't also buy a car, relegating the 2 wheeler to "toy I use when the weather is nice".
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undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch · 16 pts · 351d
Doing anything other than sitting at home 24/7 will make you poor, and even that will cost you.
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz · 11 pts · 349d
You can spend your way to poverty, but you cannot save your way to wealth.
bratorange@feddit.org · 10 pts · 350d
Number 17: Living
Noodle07@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 349d
"Buying onlyfan" Lmao
PunnyName@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 350d
Weird how I've seen a number of rich people do all of those things, and they continue to be rich.
It's gotta be something else...
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 349d
Video Games being on the list is hilarious. Ever since the death of the arcade, those are some of the least expensive things I buy for how long I use them. Paid $20 for Factorio, Dyson Sphere Program, Terraria, and Vintage Story. I have thousands of hours in the first three and around 500 hours in VS.
lividweasel@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 351d
“Watered bottle”
Jankatarch@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 349d
"Be born in a poor family and get scammed by the college debt companies at age 17."
Evolith@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 347d
If I stay in school forever, I'll never pay it back. I'm taking these negative numbers with me to conscripted war and/or the grave!
thatradomguy@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 350d
Just remember, we could house every single person on earth when it doesn't concern capitalism. We make double the amount of food every day to feed every person on earth every day and we toss but still have homeless and hungry. Just remember that.
floopus@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 349d
help I'm addicted to water bottles I'm gonna lose my house
baronofclubs@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 349d
Watered Bottles*
kepix@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 349d
cause alcoholism is strictly capitalist
javasux@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 350d
Ah damn, gotta watch out for my Alcoholism habit
kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 349d
Don't forget eating food will generally make you poor, and renting a cardboard box on the side of the road will cost you $10,000 with a $3,000 go fuck yourself fee
calmblue75@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 349d
I impulse buy a lot. That is not in any way making me poorer, though. For reference, I impulsively buy pens and yarn.
lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 350d
Eating avocado toast
Or anything else. Eating is quite expensive
Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 350d
Gambling will definitely make you poor though
CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 350d
No, some of you are absolutely ADHD filling a hole buying worthless shit.
Both unregulated capitalism and your inability to budget can exist.
Jankatarch@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 349d
Tbf hobbies aren't seen as hobbies unless they cost money
You will have harder time making friends, connections, and finding jobs if some core part of your personality doesn't involve consumerism.
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 349d
I get what you mean, but there is hiking, surfing, video games if you pirate, tons of hobbies cost very little long-term or reduce already existing expenses, like cooking or riding a bicycle/motorcycle instead of driving (assuming you go all in and don't also buy a car, relegating the 2 wheeler to "toy I use when the weather is nice".
CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 349d
Jesus Christ, go play some soccer or cricket. You people make the shittiest excuses and stories.
Jankatarch@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 349d
Look I am trying my best to understand. If it was some brats with rich parents that would make sense.
But half an entire age-range couldn't just start impulse-buying if there wasn't something else going on.
shawn1122@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 349d
The culture romanticizes consumerism. Children are taught at a young age to prioritize things over people.