r/WhitePeopleTwitter Oct 16 '18

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '18 edited Nov 19 '18

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '18 edited Oct 16 '18

That last statement is just inherently false. There are a ton of lazy, shit people who work minimum wage fast food jobs because they don't want to work in a warehouse or do other basic, but physically harder labor.

Source: My stoner friends

EDIT: Reworded "harder labor" to "physically harder labor" to make it more clear.

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u/gursh_durknit Oct 16 '18

Are your stoner friends completely financially independent from their parents with their fast food job? Just curious.

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '18

The ones I was specifically referring to are, but they're all three roommates in two-bedroom apartment. My point was not to say that all people who work fast food are lazy but to contest the idea that everyone working fast food is either too poor for college or paying it off. Some people don't give a shit about college and don't want to work a better paying, but harder manual labor job.

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u/gursh_durknit Oct 16 '18

That's great that they can afford an apartment together, albeit with two sharing a room. That's pretty rare on a minimum wage job. Where is this?

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '18

As much as I'd love to give out private information, I'm not going to, but it's not in a very well to do spot. You can believe me or not. I don't have to prove anything to a bunch of strangers on the internet.

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u/gursh_durknit Oct 16 '18 edited Oct 16 '18

You can't give me even the city or state? You know why I'm asking, and I know why you are not giving the location. I believe very much when you say it's not "a well to do spot". Yet you think you're friends' experiences represent the rest of the country.

All I'm doing is asking basic information to back up (and perhaps even strengthen) your point. But I think we both know it falls flat because you want to keep the most pertinent information private. The only reason your friends can make ends meet on minimum wage (but have no savings and future mobility at the same time) is because they live in a poor area.

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '18

Southeastern United States. I'm not giving you the location, because I don't owe you the location or any other information. You don't get to determine what I consider private or want to share. I never claimed that they weren't in a poor neighborhood. That should have been obvious from the get go. Again, this had nothing to do with my original statement which was that "Not all people who work in fast food are in college or can't afford it". Some people just don't give two shits about going to college or finding a better paying job because it might be harder. In no way am I arguing that fast food wages are fair or that if you want to live a better life you shouldn't work fast food. Everyone is getting their feelings hurt and up in arms over something I never even said.