• norimee@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    24 y/o with a teaching job.

    No real income is what she has. Probably on top of a shitton student debt.

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      6 months ago

      “no real bills” I’d believe…if the parent said she lived at home (no rent, and food provided), was on parents’ insurance (health, auto, etc.), had no student debt, and was walking distance to work.

      But given that her parent didn’t, I’d guess that isn’t the case. Turns out rent, food, transportation, and like you said, student debt, are all…what’s the word…real bills?

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        6 months ago

        To a lot of people “serious bills” means credit card debt for shit they didn’t need.

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    6 months ago

    This pervasive selfishness in older generations sickens and astounds me.

    Imagine not wanting to give your kids everything.

    I would forego food if I had to in order to help my kids see better.

    • ilovededyoupiggy@sh.itjust.works
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      6 months ago

      I would forego food to make sure my kids had glasses or contacts, sure.

      I would not forego food so they could have elective surgery.

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          6 months ago

          LASIK isn’t some great cure. It has potential side effects and you can end up seeing worse than you did before.

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            6 months ago

            I know I’m just one person, but it was one of the best decisions I ever made. I was almost legally blind without glasses/contacts, and just the stress of making sure my glasses prescription was up to date once I switched to contacts, making sure I packed glasses, contacts, extra contacts, solution, etc, for a trip, and losing 1 contact while at the store or something was instantly erased.

            I could read the street signs on the highway on the way home from the surgery. I hadn’t been able to do that unaided since I was probably 10.

            Do I need readers now that I’m older? Yep, just like they told me I would because everyone does because it’s a different issue that comes with aging. I wish they had a similar treatment for Presbyopia!!!

            Sure, everyone’s experience is different, but it almost was akin to a miracle for me. Life changing for sure.

  • Feathercrown@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I wonder if this lady will ever realize the politicians she votes for (come on, we know which party) are why her daughter with one of the most importsnt jobs in the entire world can’t afford to see. Probably not.

  • fatboy93@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    The fuck does no real bills mean? Does eating, rent and gas/insurance not count as real bill?

  • pyre@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    “no real kids”

    “no real bills”

    🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

    the fact that he added “real” to both means she has them but he somehow doesn’t consider them real, whatever the fuck that means. but this sounds like a total piece of shit and i feel sorry for the 24 year old.

    nothing like ruining the economy and the future for the next generation and then refusing to help.

  • trumpetmouth@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Dammit Mom, my 56 imaginary kids cost me nearly my ENTIRE paycheck! Have some sympathy.

    But for real, what is “real kids?”