> > You really can't comprehend what life is like on the minimum wage of $15k.
I have personal experience with exactly that kind of poverty, and the chronic physical/mental health problems and financial roadblocks to prove it.
Putting your assumptions about my life aside, you missed the point.
The presumption that people "in the interior" are poor and virtuous and people "on the coasts" are rich and morally bankrupt is profoundly wrong.
The presumption that people who "work with their hands" are poor and people who work in technology are rich is also wrong.
There are people in each quadrant of the "interior"/coast/rich/poor divide. The "rich=coast=no morals=tech" trope is just the opposite side of the ugly "poor='interior'=lazy=uneducated" coin.
I'll also repeat one of my original questions: who in the "interior" actually refers to the "interior" as the "interior"? I literally never heard that language until I moved to a coast.
I have personal experience with exactly that kind of poverty, and the chronic physical/mental health problems and financial roadblocks to prove it.
Putting your assumptions about my life aside, you missed the point.
The presumption that people "in the interior" are poor and virtuous and people "on the coasts" are rich and morally bankrupt is profoundly wrong.
The presumption that people who "work with their hands" are poor and people who work in technology are rich is also wrong.
There are people in each quadrant of the "interior"/coast/rich/poor divide. The "rich=coast=no morals=tech" trope is just the opposite side of the ugly "poor='interior'=lazy=uneducated" coin.
I'll also repeat one of my original questions: who in the "interior" actually refers to the "interior" as the "interior"? I literally never heard that language until I moved to a coast.