as small as a world and as large as alone, lichgem: People who get enough money to live off...

8:55pm May 24, 2014

People who get enough money to live off of think of so many things as “luxury items” that they would never personally do without themselves if they didn’t have to, I swear to god

Like Fox news was ASTOUNDED that poor people have fridges, because obviously we should all be eating tins of beans cooked over campfires, which is the economical choice

My internet isn’t a fun toy, though it can be that. It’s my connection to the world. I don’t have anything more than an extremely tenuous support system locally, one that keeps reminding me it’s going to cut me off soon.

I don’t know why I should bother explaining, because people don’t KNOW that people with my living situation exist, so they’re going to just try to explain to me how it’s so easy to just not have the life that I have.

And if you dropped Internet, you wouldn’t be able to raise the funds you need.

And if you dropped Internet, you would be significantly more unsafe if something bad happened to you in the programs you’re in.

The Internet is not optional for a lot of people and anyone who treats it as if it is, doesn’t know what they’re talking about.

Plus if I had the $30 more a month that I spend on Internet, it would not affect my ability to buy food that much, if I needed to buy food. It really doesn’t make such a huge difference.

Plus social isolation can kill people, especially people who are already isolated. The Internet is the only place many of us can easily socialize.

There’s just so much wrong. And you should not have to justify a damn thing.

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