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Not a direct response to anyone here, but for the last 3 years I've been paying my father's rent and car insurance and registration. He's on food stamps and heating assistance, and most of what he makes (which doesn't involve driving) goes toward beer, cigarettes and gasoline. I've been offering for over a year to pay for him to move closer to civilization where he's more likely to find a job his pride will accept, but he "prefers" to live in a rural area. This month I've declined to renew his insurance and registration, and offered to give him an electric bicycle instead. I love him to death, but he's a good example of someone working well below their capacity, and living well above his means. If anything, I expect losing his truck will do him a lot of good.
I tend to lean very politically left, but where I grew up, most of the poorest people had a trucks and SUVs, and it was very much a choice.
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