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Daily Discussion Thread: Fri 25 Aug 2023 (aussie.zone)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hugs to both of you. None of it is fair.

I just don't understand how so many people are awful to friends and loved ones.

And I hate how this economy with low wages is making choices in relationships and friendships have such deep potentially awful consequences. The poverty wages is giving us fewer choices.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks, I'm quite happy to have a just scraping by wage this year or even this and next year but I've set myself up for very low housing costs. Just when starting a new job and waiting on centrelink to grace me with the god of the health care card it's tight without delving into my hard earned and sacrificed for savings. To quote a stupid tshirt, "I am gay and $500 is $500." That what is says isn't it?