It’s expensive to be poor. It’s harder to get out poverty than to be born wealthy with family that has connections and opportunities. Spend your money extremely wisely, because it’s the real way we vote in this system.
I’ve asked myself the question a lot lately, “What am I spending money on that’s a waste perpetuating this broken system which I could stop spending today?”
The only way to rise is to be smarter than the systems designed to drag us down. If you need a clear example, just look at a casino.
One has to bite through the fatigue this society creates to cook. Why spend $10 for a single meal when you can spend that on groceries and make several. It’s just really hard some days and I get that, but take a little time here and there to cook something. It helps having something like that on the side instead of existence meals.