Oh no... you're totally right.... I didn't grow up having to wash my own clothes in the bathtub and hang them on the stair railing to dry, and I didn't live off of ramen and 2 for $1 specials from Hardee's and Taco John's. I was also never made fun of in school and then given a big bag of pity clothing from a more well-off student because I looked and maybe even smelled fucking homeless.
Yes, I understand how people who are comfortable with money spend it carelessly, but much of what you are saying
still isn't logically cohesive. For example, you live in a two-income household, so you are likely making
at least two times the federal poverty level for two people of $16,910. I would certainly hope you do not feel poor making that much money.
Now, taking home $18,349 a year, which is what $10/hour would be, as a single parent of two who never though that the person they chose to marry and have children with (a pretty normal occurrence) would end up being abusive (also not unusual), and that they would in a very short span of time find themself starting over alone, with two kids to raise, which is a rather frightening transition oftentimes in an of itself. Now, throw in the average cost of full-time daycare for young children, you know.... so the parent can work, and it becomes an issue immediately. The average cost of daycare for an infant/toddler over one year is $11,666, and for a pre-schooler is $8,800.
But let's be real. What you are saying is that it is not possible for a woman who got married and then had two children with a man that she did not know would turn out to be abusive, manipulative, controlling, and threatening to be oppressed during that abusive marriage to a point where she was prevented from attaining a degree she had previously been working toward? And that after escaping it, she discovered that the logistics of continuing her education suddenly became impossible, given that she has to work full-time to make enough money to live, and that full-time work has to be during daycare center hours, so basically a 9-5, and that all of her schooling has to happen in the evening and/or the weekends, and that if it isn't 100% online, she has to ALSO have care for her children in the evenings and on those weekends she is attending class, AAAAND she has to maintain the fucking house and keep her children alive and nurtured? Also, in my personal situation, I have zero support group, which you already know but apparently want to still deny the reality that many people
have actually experienced some significant oppression that negatively affected the logistics of improving their lives for the future.
You are deluded, and I am 100% done talking to you about anything, between this and our other previous interaction, only because I do not have any interest to attempt to enlighten you, nor do I particularly care what you think about Trump, or anything else. You are essentially a non-issue to me.
