People Share Their Hot Takes on Money That Make Us Question Our Financial Reality

There’s a weird thing that you may have noticed, which is that some people have opinions about what it should look like to be poor. And these people get really irritated if anyone who is poor or homeless owns anything that looks like it cost them any amount of money at all.

That’s ridiculous, though, because there are all sorts of reasons that someone who is poor might own an expensive item. Maybe they bought it before they fell on hard times. Maybe it was a gift. Maybe they worked hard to save money in order to buy it for themselves. Most importantly, as this person points out, scraping together a bit of money for a phone is very different from scraping together a lot of money for a house.