hoodiesandjeans:

zoobus:

savypsychopath:

But…. that’s the point…. you should have saved so you weren’t living paycheck to paycheck….

Hey instead of being mean, I’m going to try to explain this in simple terms

The phrase “living paycheck to paycheck” implies there is no room for savings. You are spending your entire paycheck to survive. All of your expenses are going towards you barely being able to tread water. Any savings made are quickly lost when emergencies inevitably arise. Two back to back financial crisises? That’s your ass. That’s fuck you, you should have saved more, even though you couldn’t have.

Your comment is saying people who are struggling to save deserve that pain because they didn’t save. 800,000 currently furloughed workers with 800,000 different lives are carrying the burden of missing a month’s pay, bills, rent, childcare, food, debts indifferent to that burden – in what way is telling someone barely surviving they should have stopped being poor a meaningful statement? It isn’t.

Please be kinder to others

I’ve literally never understood this. I feel like these people don’t realize that people who live paycheck to paycheck almost never have had a time where they could save money. As soon as you enter the workforce you are living paycheck to paycheck and because minimum wage has barely increased in most areas and minimum wage jobs give you a fifty cent raise every year you aren’t ever getting to a place where you can actually save unless you can get a better job which usually requires a college degree which you can’t afford because you’re living paycheck to paycheck or work experience which you can’t get unless you either intern (for free which you cant do living paycheck to paycheck) or they actually hire you which they won’t do without experience! Like……….how do so many people not understand that this is how it works.