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[–] 12 points 10 months ago (3 children)

No one's convincing me Americans are so broke when they use apps like this. It's like the mid-price grocery down the street being bumped off by the new place, most expensive in town and 1-mile further for most people.

Now our second Aldi has moved into the mid-price store's building. Aldi's mostly empty while the most expensive store is jammed SRO. For context, this is a small redneck suburb of a poor city, not exactly bougie.

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  • [–] 15 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I'm not even that broke and I don't use them. Everyone I know who does is horrible with money.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    Had a 19-yo that wanted to be friends at work trying to buy me delivered food.

    "Dude, no offense, but you're poor, don't even have a car and get paid minimum wage. Food delivery is bullshit."

    He kept doing it anyway.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    I think most people are kind of bad with money, and I think that scales with income.

    I think a lot about some old coworkers (six figure salary). We all wanted to go out for a party after work. A bunch of then paid like $80 for a car. I paid $3 for a subway ride. Got there at the same time.

    Maybe that's not so much "bad at money" exactly as have incomprehensible to me values.

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