• TheLowestStone@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    I don’t because I make well above minimum wage but you’re making uprooting your life and moving sound easier than it. It costs thousands of dollars to move to a new city, even more if you don’t have friends or family to stay with until you get established. Good luck setting that much aside when you’re barely surviving.

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      7 hours ago

      actually it costs thousands to move by your standards. it costs nothing but the swinging of your two feet to move somewhere else if there are no standards.

      this is the point about freedom that ops trying to make.

      you think I’m joking? how many people do you think have ever walked from NY to CA?

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      16 hours ago

      I’m not saying it’s easy! I’m saying it’s possible.

      Having family and family obligations is still your choice. Many people walk away from all that because it’s unbearable to them. A prisoner doesn’t have that option: they’re stuck with whoever their cellmates are, no matter what.

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        6 hours ago

        I honestly don’t get all these people downvoting the general sentiment that a prisoner is, in fact, imprisoned. A free person on the other hand, is not.

        No one here is denying that being poor or homeless makes it extremely hard to really do anything, that’s not the point. The point is that no matter how poor or homeless a person is, they still retain the freedom of choice regarding what to do when they wake up the next morning.