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On The Experience of Being Poor-ish, For People Who Aren't

Meta-Note: I’m sorry it’s been so long between articles; for better or worse writing here is something that I do for fun, and sometimes work and family get in the way. In this case, I was spending a lot of time trying to learn SQL; you will be pleased to note I am now able to pad my resume with ...

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Hasnain says:

Very insightful, I learnt a bunch from this perspective.

“When someone is telling me they are or have been poor and I’m trying to determine how poor exactly they were, there’s one evergreen question I ask that has never failed to give me a good idea of what kind of situation I’m dealing with. That question is: “How many times have they turned off your water?”.”

Posted on 2021-03-02T04:44:18+0000