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Originally Posted by James81  So you're saying that you don't have any interests at all? I'm not telling you to go chain yourself to a cubicle. Hell, I'm not even saying to get a job. All *I* am saying is that you purposely leeching off of charity programs designed for people who have no other choice but to be homeless is....selfish? Trying to think of the right word for it.
And you do it because you simply don't want to work. And it's all because of your beliefs. You've attached "I'll commit suicide" to all types of jobs, when there are plenty of jobs out there that you could probably do and enjoy if you wanted to. That's the key though: wanting to. |
You're just skipping right over the thread-title and my mention of bartering labor, aren't you? I'm not leeching: I'm trading fairly. Ah, what a humorous trigger o'er which I hath stumbled.
What's all this about a cubicle, mate? I can only qualify for working in kitchens and warehouses, and neither are hiring.
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Originally Posted by James81 And you know what? Even if there aren't, I'm sure you could use that brain of yours to find a way to NOT leech off of programs designed to help people who don't choose this lifestyle. It's not that you don't want to work that I take issue with. It's the leeching off of programs designed for people who don't make the choice that I have an issue with. |
I've used my brain to find a way to help them directly in exchange for an essential commodity: done! I'm also doing web-design for anyone whom'll have me, but that's only just gotten started.
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Originally Posted by James81 ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. That's just an excuse. My current bills currently tally to $1200 per month. That's for an apartment, a CAR (which not everybody needs), electric, TV, internet, a gym membership, and a phone. As you can see there are plenty of things on that list I don't even need. And anybody working a minimum wage job can earn enough to pay my bills.  |
*clears throat to speak with Voice of Experience*
Bu-hu-hullshit! Y'ever had to walk 'cross cross-town at the crack o' ridiculous just to loiter in front of a temp-agency so that you
might earn $20 for unloading a truck? and had
no other source of income? At most, I've never earned more that $500-600 per month, and that's when I've had great hours (~40 per week) at $8 per hour. Jeez, where do
you live? I've got enough scratch left for a bus-ticket!
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Originally Posted by James81 I liked it better when you made it seem like a choice to you. This defeatist attitude you bring isn't convincing anybody of your plight. You'd be surprised at what people make it through in this country and how little you truly need to earn to survive. |
This is a choice. Instead of fighting in a barren job-market, I'm making the most of my ever-looming necessity to live without money. My sense of honor is demanding that I still give something in exchange for the resources available to me; so I employ my most marketable skill, laboring. I need food. A local pier is a great nap-destination. Bathrooms are plentiful. Most everything I own currently fits into a small/medium-sized backpack.
I know how simply an organism can sustain homeostasis, friend.
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Originally Posted by James81 Yeah, I have a little experience in managing money. I know what it's like to make meals out of ramen noodles, to live frugal, all of that. Why do you think my monthly bills are so cheap?
I'm not calling your lifestyle a wasteland. Personally, I think it sounds great. I just don't respect the fact that you're leeching for your food. If you found ways to earn at least that much, I'd applaud your life. Cause I'm a minimilast myself. Obviously not to the extent you are, but compared to your average American, my lifestyle at the moment is pretty lean. |
You think a G per month is cheap? Wow. And off of ramen is no way to live.
Anyway—and for the last time I'm able to say it, in this response—I am NOT simply living as a vampire! I vill vork for ze food, as I have done! Bah! Besides, define "no other choice but to be homeless," anyway. I've chatted with homeless folk: some are war-veterans; others made more in a day pan-handling than I did at work! We all had access to the same public libraries. Cart-wielding outdoorsfolk even owned more stuff than I carry around or kept at home: what's up with that? Are you referring to the insane or something, like drug-addicts and/or disabled? At least where I'm from, they were the minority by a strong margin. People on the street... get this...
are still people, sparky: they can do nigh-anything, if they put their minds to it. There ain't no hobo-disease like a zombie-plague stoppin' anyone from "rising up" to a larger tax-bracket.
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If you don't respect someone for taking their business—their fine ability to contribute as a member of the proletariat—to a venue wherein they are practically guaranteed to get a fair deal for a day's efforts; well, what
do you respect?