Me: No…
6 year-old cousin: They lose an arm.
She really said that.
But I’m not her mother. So I changed the subject to pizza.
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Seeing that we’re on the subject of poor people, I’d like to further address this topic. Do people with money problems really exist? I’m asking because I’ve recently come across several blogs with a post asking the readers for monetary donations. And I’m not referring to blogs that have a PayPal donation button with a caption that reads, ‘Donate if you want to.’ I’m referring to actual posts where the blogger explains why the readers should donate money. In these posts, the bloggers reveal that they have a family to financially support and, that, since their readers are all rich because they can afford to use the internet, the bloggers are entitled to money from the readers.
Everyone I know can afford to use the internet which, we just learned, means that they're all rich. So tell me, do people with money problems really exist? Because, apparently, I don't know anyone who isn't rich. I also don't happen to know anyone who's missing an arm...