It’s expensive to be poor. It’s harder to get out poverty than to be born wealthy with family that has connections and opportunities. Spend your money extremely wisely, because it’s the real way we vote in this system.
I’ve asked myself the question a lot lately, “What am I spending money on that’s a waste perpetuating this broken system which I could stop spending today?”
The only way to rise is to be smarter than the systems designed to drag us down. If you need a clear example, just look at a casino.
The worst part is that this is most true when it comes to groceries. You can save thousands of dollars a year on groceries if you are able to invest in your pantry and freezer or afford to buy bulk.
Yup, and then on top of that the time to be able to use those bulk ingredients to prepare healthy meals. If you’re poor, stressed, and working two jobs, you don’t really have time for that right? The tax of convenience hits those with the least amount of time to invest in themselves.
One has to bite through the fatigue this society creates to cook. Why spend $10 for a single meal when you can spend that on groceries and make several. It’s just really hard some days and I get that, but take a little time here and there to cook something. It helps having something like that on the side instead of existence meals.