Taking pride in working with your hands.
Taking pride in knowing you earn an honest living.
Paying taxes and knowing you do it to support your community.
Loving other human beings.
Empathy, and simply putting yourself in somebody else's shoes.
Having human feelings.
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For those wondering about comparison with a billionaire, if you have $60,000 net worth, your $1 is equivalent to $0.00006 to someone with $1B net worth.
Buying things piecemeal. This is also doubles as an answer to "why it's financially unwise to be poor." We buy shampoo, conditioner, and sometimes even soap in single-use sachets. Of course, it is more economical to buy in larger quantities, because you can control your portion sizes and whatnot. But when that bottle of shampoo costs the equivalent of the day's meals (two, maybe three), then the reasoning becomes understandable. A lot of stuff are hence available here in "single-use" sachets or packets.
A lot of these things have overlap with "travel-size" stuff that are actually quite logical when you're traveling, but for a lot of us here, it's what we buy week in, week out.
I have never been close to rich, but never truly poor either. 20 years ago my friend was in a credit card debt spiral of fees. I didn't get it so she explained how the fees for not paying back the credit card prevented her from paying back her credit card and she never had money because it cost money to not have money.
"So like.. what kind of figure are we talking about? What would you need to not have to pay one month's fees? And if I loan you this amount you'll be out of the debt spiral? It will fix this being charged fees so you keep having to pay fees bullshit?"
If you know the Terry Pratchett's Boots thing it was like loaning her enough for one good pair of boots and solving so many financial problems. Even something like that I would never have understood without it being explained.
This is painfully true here as well. Worse, it's not just credit cards. There are payday loans here that, while you can take out a loan without much hassle, you and your loved ones will be hounded by their agents if you even delay a single payment.
And then there's these loan sharks whose main shtick is to provide loans with 20% interest (so-called 5/6--you loan 5 bucks, you pay 6 bucks). It's kinda crazy to imagine that these loan sharks are the most humane one of the bunch, but with these loansharks, you can at least reason with them.
I do. Paid. But when I was poor, I never took out more than the minimum, as vacation pay accumulated for the entire year, but my hourly wage came sooner, and I was so cash strapped that I couldn't wait.
So much labor! The amount of work I have to do to make sure I don't have to spend money when I'm out of the house. So much planning, not just in the packing up, but also in stocking my house so that I can pack up everything we'll need for an outing because food from the grocery store and water from home is so much cheaper than buying anything on the fly. Packing for a trip is exhausting, but I'd sooner die than have to buy a cheese stick or a bandaid at the theme park price. My brother-in-law is so freaking chill because he uses money to solve all his problems. Cold on your trip? Buy a jacket! Spill in your car? Through a car wash! Headache? Buy the single packet of Tylenol! Hungry? Buy lunch wherever is closest! Don't like the taste of the beer you ordered? No sweat! Buy a different one. I wish I could be non-chalant like him, but if I want to have half the experience he has, I have to put in so much work up front!