This guy sucks.
FYI: Trustafarian is a word that has been used for at least 25 years. He thinks its new.
Anyways, I digress. Most trustafarians also suck, but this guy sucks for entirely different reasons.
If you listen to the first 3 or 4 minutes of this edgelords rant and don’t get why he sucks… and don’t see any red flags … well, if you’d like to pay me for my time, message me and I can send you my venmo, and upon receipt of $10, I’ll explain it to you.
edit: to all y’all who think I owe y’all my time, you’re as entitled as this custie trustafarian pictured above.
You took the time to write all this why not just stand by the opinion you clearly have?
We used to use the term in the mid 90s to describe the kids hanging out in Berkeley begging for cigarette money, then getting picked up in Mercs to get driven home in the hills. They were usually white kids with dreads.
They were dumbass kids. I’m sure the current batch are dumasses too I was never a fan, but in the scheme of things, there is a lot worse out there.
this is the culture of most of my city. lots of people in very expensive clothes, beards, and etc that make them look like semi homeless bums. who work for a tech company and are banking six figures.
Tech people look like semi homeless bums because we don’t know how to dress ourselves. We aren’t buying expensive clothes. We’re spending our money on hardware, goofy nerdy shit, or investing in stonks for some reason.
Papa Meat!!!
Now thats what I call appropriating.
There is one thing for uber wealthy people to act poor but I dont care if a wealthy person finds happiness in a frugal lifestyle. Sharing in cultures is vital to the human experience.
I don’t disagree with your sentiment taken in a vacuum, but gentrification (of housing and activities in general) is 100% a real thing and is almost always due to rich people trying to live a “frugal lifestyle.” Idk man, shit just sucks all around
Yeah, I get that but the complaint that these people with wealthy parents get to focus on art and lifestyle is a failure of the system not the person.
We should all be able to do that but only the wealthy can, so spread the wealth yeah but dont hate on arts and independent thought, trying new things and seeking an environment you enjoy.
I think that is not necessarily true, just because they are wealthy does not mean they cannot then enjoy living frugally as a part of their chosen lifestyle.
But an essential part of “living frugally” is…being frugal. Co-opting the “style” of poverty while acting like you’re more spiritually enlightened for it while shelling out a fortune and constantly having a massive amount of money to fall back on while preaching frugality to a bunch of people who don’t have money is…gross.
And if you watch the video, this isn’t just “trustafarians,” but also about the systems hat have been put in place in developing nations to traffic children to attract wealthy foreigners to “voluntourism” in their area and profit off of that exploitation while these wealthy “po-mouthing” kids can’t post about how generous they are and talk about how it changed their life.
The crazy thing is that i i were filthy rich, the only thing that would change is that i wouldn’t go to work anymore, and i’d probably invest in some sort of farm/weekly market where you can buy actually fresh and cheap veggies and things like that and i wouldn’t have to care if it makes money. So i totally get that aspect of it. But pretending to be a complete hippie and selling that lifestyle while you’re clearly not, just seems weird
Farmers markets, there usually held on weekends around here, get fresh fruit and vegetables from local growers.
There’s this weird in between that many sister in law lives in. She buys everything at thrift stores but it’s those trendy super expensive thrift stores lol
trendy super expensive thrift stores
This truly is the darkest timeline. Definitely the stupidest 🤦
Buffalo Exchange and similar stores like that are between thrift stores and consignment stores, they purchase their products either from customers for store credit or cherry pick at real thrift stores then mark it up to sell at the trendy store. Everything there has to meet a specific aesthetic.