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[-] FeelThePower@lemmy.dbzer0.com 45 points 20 hours ago

this happened to me at only 19. I was homeless for 4 months after.

[-] TheRealLinga@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 hours ago

I'm in the same boat. Plus I was "unschooled" with neglectful mentally ill parents so my education REALLY suffered. Funnily enough I'll be turning 38 soon... but I've been working hard for decades and have a career and family of my own now thankfully

[-] treesquid@lemmy.world 14 points 13 hours ago

It sucks at 19 and isn't really fair because getting started is so much harder these days. Now imagine you were twice as old and had never tried to do anything with your life.

[-] Anti_Iridium@lemmy.world 21 points 19 hours ago

I regularly tell my parents that the reason I am not like so many Americans, is that I have a supportive family. I live with my parents, but I would likely be homeless if they weren't here for me.

[-] treesquid@lemmy.world 9 points 13 hours ago

But like ... You do work or go to school or at least try to do something besides just mooch, right? This guy never even tried, apparently for two decades after high school

[-] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

The government has wasted at least 176 Billion dollars in Iran over the past three months, the leader of our society has siphoned at least 2 Billion in the past two years, data centers with near zero product are draining the water and electricity from communities all over the country while playing hot potato with hundred of billions more, and you're calling your peer a mooch for feeling unable to participate.

[-] Anti_Iridium@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

I would like to think so? Even so, I do pay my parents 500 a month as rent.

Yeah, he would probably be homeless if he didn't have an overly supportive family I think.

[-] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 points 11 minutes ago

There's a definite difference between renting below market rate from your family and being a 37 year old who's never had a job, can't drive etc.

[-] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 20 points 20 hours ago

Me at 22. Was homeless as well. I make decent money now almost twenty years later and I still look at prices and think back when I used to dumpster dive.

[-] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 22 points 19 hours ago

Back in the day, I used to eat pretty well out of dumpsters. Wasn't really homeless, was living in an old caravan, but was proper broke.

These days, at least round here, they lock up the dumpsters, have security guards, or deliberately contaminate the food. Wankers.

[-] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 hour ago

Living out of a car or living on friend's couches is considered homelessness. It's why some people say unhoused instead.

[-] Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca 18 points 16 hours ago

The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country. Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth.

There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

[-] FeelThePower@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 20 hours ago

glad you're doing good now. just as a little secret, I still dumpster dive to this day honestly... it's how I got every piece of furniture in my house except my bed. gotta save where ya can lol.

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