“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”

― Robert A. Heinlein

Also if you're a fat woman your dating chances suuuuuck.

Of course each individual action of preventing waste isn't a 100% indicator for having grown up in poverty. Low-waste is arguably fashionable, even. But being low-waste is different from acquiring and retaining arbitrary stuff to use later in place of things you can just buy when you need it. Buying a reusable straw is different from keeping every disposable straw you're given, same as buying a reusable bag is different from keeping every takeout/grocery plastic one. The house of my parents displays my impoverished childhood clearly-- it is a place of incredible resourcefulness using all the things people normally refuse to acquire or throw away if given to them.

I used to live in wealthy frathouse neighborhoods and they do the same shit there too. They just have the money to hire cleaners after they trash houses, or collectively buy summer vacation trips to other countries to do it.

Remember that the immigrants who come to america already have enough resources at minimum to immigrate!

Minimalism, aka the confidence to be able to acquire anything you may need at the moment with resources always available to you, is a class indicator.

Really, this is editorializing on the part of the person who submitted this link to HN.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/forgive

1 : to cease to feel resentment against (an offender) : pardon forgive one's enemies

Genuinely curious... have you ever been an obese person? Every fat person I've known have told me they're constantly shamed about being fat in medical settings, some to the point where they actively avoid going to a doctor anymore because they've given up on anything beyond being told they're fat.

0. https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2023/05/long-covid-19...

Consider: you can hear voices and choose not to respond to them. You can have delusional beliefs and not act on them. There's no functional difference between talking with your mom on the phone and talking with an alien that has replaced your mom on the phone if you're willing to play along or simply acknowledge "hi schizophrenia, funny idea, that".