thisizmypornburner t1_itxcc9o wrote
Reply to comment by quantcompandthings in Poverty descriptions in old books that doesn't seem poor in today's property market by p_romer
You forget that you’re reading about two different classes of people.
They are poor for being kind of aristocracy in the United States.
The homeless and the tenant farmers and the slaves and all of that would be the ones living the kind of poverty that you’re thinking of.
In today’s age the homeless in the attic’s and the people who will sleep on the streets or a different class of person, Then say a poor person who works as a waitress and has one child but somehow barely ekes out in existence in a studio apartment
It’s two classes of people also poverty mean something different for each of them
quantcompandthings t1_itxf27c wrote
"They are poor for being kind of aristocracy in the United States."
Meg and Jo were working as governess and companion at the ripe ages of 15 and 16. That's not what aristocrats do, even the poor ones.
Poor US aristocracy is Lily Bart in House of Mirth.
thisizmypornburner t1_itxft3y wrote
Lol yes they do, poor aristocracy ends up caring for children all the time
Literally fucking Diana Spencer who became princess of Wales was nannying
SinisterCuttleFish t1_itynbfi wrote
Diana Spencer was not poor, she came from a very wealthy aristocratic background.
She worked part time in a friend's childcare, she was not a full time nanny.
thisizmypornburner t1_ityo012 wrote
Lol 😆
She rode the subway, she lived ‘poor’ for aristocracy
Ergo your comment was stupid. As I said there’s two sets of classes within each class. The ‘poor’ for that class and the ‘rich’
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