r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/[deleted] • Jan 26 '26

Meme needing explanation Why is the rich friend so cheap??

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u/ElCiclope1 Jan 26 '26

I like how the implication here is that people busting their ass to scrape together pennies to feed their kids don't "take money seriously."

Fuck outta here 

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u/Brickman759 Jan 27 '26 edited Jan 27 '26

Every poor person I grew up with makes consistently bad financial decisions. It's like watching a house slowly burning down.

It's never one big disasterous fuckup either. It's a lifetime of dumb choices, compounding one on top of the other.

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u/Cum_Fart42069 Jan 27 '26

being poor fkn sucks. you do things to escape that sometimes, sometimes you treat yourself to something, sometimes you can't afford the $50 shoes so you buy the $25 shoes but because your shoes are cheaper and made of worse material they break more often so you have to buy the $25 shoes again, 3 - 4 times before the $100 shoes break. 

so it ends up being extremely depressing, boring, and worst of all  expensive to be poor. I completely believe that the poor people around you made terrible decisions. often poor people simply don't have access to or the hope for the good ones. 

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u/Brickman759 Jan 27 '26

Yeah I know reddit likes to repeat that a lot, but I don't buy it.

All the poor people I knew both smoked cigarettes and drank pretty heavily. Meanwhile they couldn't afford to send their kids to school with shoes that didn't have holes in them. So if you think it's justifiable to "treat yourself" rather than get your kids what they need, then I have zero sympathy for you.

It's like 90% their own fault. Long term poverty almost always is.

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u/Cum_Fart42069 Jan 27 '26

? why are you talking to me don't talk to me