• homes@piefed.world
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    1 month ago

    While you’re right about those contrast segment, it’s not as black-and-white as you think. Nor are the places where you live.

    I’m from New York. Like London, there are a lot of different, cultural and social sections to cities like that. The contrast segments in those cities overlap enough that three months can mean a lot for people living there depending on your income level, and people from a lot of different income levels can have a lot of different support options. If, say, they lose their job. And their options depend on community support, and whether or not rich people are greedy or whether they are forced support the city where they live by paying their taxes.

    The poor people in those cities understand the value of supporting their communities. Usually, the rich people are only thinking of themselves.

    If you live in London, you should understand those things. If your partner is from Sri Lanka, she should understand that too.

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      1 month ago

      I think we just typed a lot to agree. In the end rich people don’t make up most of the population of rich countries so your original statement bothered me a little.

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        1 month ago

        I think there are a couple of points on which we might simply see things a little differently, but for the most part, we mostly agree

        There’s nearly half a planet of cultural difference between us, so let’s just chalk it up to that, lol

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            1 month ago

            Or comparing London to Sri Lanka? :P

            Not that comparing London to New York was any better of an example of what I was talking about