Hold on to your butts.

  • HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works
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    3 days ago

    Nobody I know in poverty is affected by stocks, so fuck them all.

    You probably know fewer than 20 people who live in poverty yet think you know everyone who’s poor?

    I live in poverty but have a locked-in retirement fund from a former employer, invested in the stock market, that I cannot control.

    It’s now down 12% since the Bloviator was elected.

    • kitnaht@lemmy.world
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      You probably know fewer than 20 people who live in poverty yet think you know everyone who’s poor?

      I’m surrounded by the dumb fucks in a deep red state in the country; nearly everyone I’ve ever interacted with my entire life lives in poverty. The fact that you have a RETIREMENT FUND AT ALL puts you well above that line.

      You know what you can’t have when you’re in poverty? Retirement funds. Because it’s considered equity and you’re not allowed to have any in order to get government assistance. The only things exempt from that are your homesteaded house, and 2 cars (and only if both adults in the house are working!)