• PP_BOY_@lemmy.world
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    21 days ago

    I don’t disagree with your sentiment taken in a vacuum, but gentrification (of housing and activities in general) is 100% a real thing and is almost always due to rich people trying to live a “frugal lifestyle.” Idk man, shit just sucks all around

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      21 days ago

      Yeah, I get that but the complaint that these people with wealthy parents get to focus on art and lifestyle is a failure of the system not the person.

      We should all be able to do that but only the wealthy can, so spread the wealth yeah but dont hate on arts and independent thought, trying new things and seeking an environment you enjoy.

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        20 days ago

        I’ve no problem with people who can afford it focusing their lives around art, lifestyle, experiences etc.

        What gets me is when such people describe it as some kind of moral choice and how people who aren’t doing that are somehow wrong, rather than “Oh my God I’m so exceptionally lucky to be able to live like this and will shut my fucking mouth to any judgement about other people who don’t have these opportunities because they’re busy trying not to be homeless”

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          19 days ago

          amen. this is my biggest beef as well.

          i grew up poor. i am doing well. but the people aroppund me act like it’s a moral failing of my own that I didn’t spend 2-5 years backpacking around the world on my parents dime. I am ‘uncultured’ and ‘unambitious’ is what I constantly hear. OK… sorry I had to pay debts and build a career from the bottom because my parents didn’t give me a six figure job at their company…

          i like my life a lot. i feel like i have ‘made it’. but a lot of folks were born into more wealth than I will ever have… and for folks like this… my life is unworthy and pathetic. I’ve literally been told that ‘your space at uni was wasted’ by these rich pricks because they think they deserve more than me for their luck at the birth lottery.

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          20 days ago

          Yeah, and like it’s kinda weird to me because in part a lot of my higher ideas and art and shit comes from my struggle as a proletariat and as some who’s sat at the do or die stage of life while trying to sleep in a car in temperatures my area doesn’t reach anymore.

          Like yeah, I’d love a break, but I need us to have a break, not me

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      19 days ago

      ? in my expereince it’s just people with some money trying to find a affordable place to live… and it gets nicer, so richer people are interested in it… and so on and so on.

      it’s cyclical.