Poor People Have Been Gaslit Into Thinking That It’s Their Fault They’re Poor.

Katie McCarville
3 min readApr 1, 2022

Back in the day it wasn’t unreasonable for a cashier to be able to afford to buy a house. Today, there’s about a billion advice articles telling poor people to skip out on simple pleasures because they’re not a necessity.

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“7 ways to stop your irresponsible spending,” etc. You get the picture. But why?Why is it a bad thing to spend…

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Katie McCarville

Feminist, Artist, Writer, ADHD haver, Playboy, Philanthropist🤷 I’m really just at the mercy of my own perspective. https://linktr.ee/katie_mccarv