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    - Cancel Netflix
    - Make food at home
    - Stop going to Starbucks
    - Fix it yourself
    - Don’t upgrade your phone
I have money and I do all of these things. It's got nothing to do with being poor. More of just a best practice imho.


In the article he says those things are not really relevant, because he's already been doing them at 100% for a long time.


Poor people should have Amazon prime because it doubles as fast delivery, and zero other streaming services. Staying in is always going to be cheaper than going out so some entertainment at home is a good idea.


Poor people shouldn't be buying shit on Amazon, nor should they be spending money on Prime.

They'd be better off with DVDs from the library.

The problem is the same as with dieting; we do know what we need to do but the willpower required is quite high.

And the world is engineered to make it hard, because they want to separate us from what money we do have.




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