"What do insanely poor people buy that ordinary people know nothing about?"

[Tsiyu]

41. I hate to say this but

there are people on DU who believe the same thing.

Recently, I was told by two DU posters that if I had a toilet and was not reduced to eating human flesh, I was not poor.

What can you say to that? If that's what America is reduced to, I give up.

And you're correct, because nothing you can say will move these people. Save the typing for people who have eyes to see.


Read that reddit thread in op when it was fresh, and it was very telling. There are so many poor out there, but many are too ashamed to admit how bad it really is unless they can do so anonymously.

But as long as they have a porcelain throne, and aren't having bbq'd next-door-neighbor kebabs for supper, they'd only be told they aren't really poor, even by some here.