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tacocat  ·  3190 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Everyone has a story - some musings on poverty

I wasn't trying to be a dick. Really. And I wasn't giving back. I made $8.50 an hour at Walmart for three years. I was poor but I wasn't raised as such. I'm still poor. But hovering around minimum wage even with family help is awful. I don't know how the people at the bottom feed themselves when I can barely do it making a still low wage the Walmart workers dream of. $11.50 is like a dream job when you work at Walmart when it's really just a little less poor.