Affluenza leads to things like this administration.
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I used to mark buried utilities. I was one of the guys who came out when you "Call 811 before you dig". My normal area was in upscale neighborhoods with two and three story McMansions. The people who lived in these neighborhoods were often times rude, sometimes they got mad when I showed up. (which is silly because they called for a locate) Sometimes they called the police. I had one homeowner who tried to get their hulking German Shepherd to attack me. (Which was funny, they had some infrastructure in their yard, I knew the dog very well, and he knew me as the guy who had leftover mcnuggets in my vest pocket)
Sometimes I'd be on call, and I'd end up in those "uNsAfE gHetTo" areas, and without exception every single person I interacted with in these "bad" neighborhoods was polite, helpful, and friendly. I had to work on labor day once, and was marking a yard next to a house that was having a barbecue. The man with the grill was visibly distraught that I was working labor day, and he MADE me take a hamburger and a soda with me when I left. I was never threatened, never had the police called on me, but I was offered water, beer, or weed any time I went to the poor neighborhoods.
This is because the "poor" can't and won't afford to make every interaction transactional.
I used to work cleaning residential construction sites. Once my coworker and I came across a bucket that was used as a toilet. My comrade commented that immigrants were nasty, but my thought was that their cheap ass boss didn't provide facilities.
I think this is the basic difference between the left and right.
No doubt, it's not like the workers WANTED to use a bucket.
"Well, if they didn't want to then they wouldn't do it!"
The obvious, simpleminded reply from someone of that position. I deal with them all too much cause of where I live. I've heard it all. They will make any excuses to justify their bigoted perspective.
Financial obesity is neurotoxic.
Guess it depends if you can blend in. I definitely agree that most people are just trying to get by but also if you can’t blend in it can get dangerous. Also people fuck each other over so much. In TV there’s always this romantic idea that people are poor but stick together, ime people are not like that unfortunately. Source: I grew up in a very shitty neighborhood.
You dont think it has anything to do with the statistical violent crime rate?
Higher yes, but people acting like it’s a complete lawless wasteland? That’s what I’m talking about. People so damn afraid that they’re going to be murdered the moment they set foot in it in broad daylight. That’s just affluenza speaking. Go through a lot of disadvantaged areas and you’ll find generally people are just trying to make it by. Thanks for proving my point.
Who says its like a lawless wasteland? If you go to an area in which crime is statistically higher, you are statistically more likely to be a victim of crime, how is my logic flawed? You realistically gonna tell me my neighborhood at night is the same level of danger as skid row CA at 9 pm? Im not talking about socioeconomic/racial/inequality here, I'm talking about math.
The violent crime rate is higher in poor areas because they’re more likely to be targeted by police and also less likely to have the prosecutor throw out the case.
I'd love to see a source stating that everywhere is equally safe. I've been robbed at gunpoint before, it wasn't in the fucking nice part of town. This is a stupid sentiment that blatantly ignores the reality of the situation. It's also insulting to people who live in dangerous areas in my opinion.
I currently live in Medellin, Colombia so don't talk to me about dangerous places to live. I never said every place was safe. I said that the violent crime rates seem higher in poorer areas because of reporting and prosecution. It's not because poor people are inherently more violent.
I never said poor people are more violent inherently, because that's not true. You're asserting that everywhere is equally violent, poor areas are just more viewed that way because crime is more highly reported and the perpetrators are not represented as well. If that's not your point then how is reporting or representation pertinent to the conversation? You either think OP has an incorrect assertion or you don't.
Affluenza isn't real, it's just an excuse the wealthy made up for not thinking the rest of us are still the same species.
I have no idea what you think it means from this post tho
Given that it’s literally in the dictionary I’m using definition B. Basically the more wealthy you get, the more you think disadvantaged places are a hive of scum and villainy. And not even uber rich people. Once you hit middle class. I have so many friends and relatives that just freak out over the idea of even passing through, coworkers too.