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Perverted Poverty

Used as both a noun and a verb, A term used to describe one way the wealthy behave regarding money. They view money as a simple disposable commodity because of the amount they’ve acquired.

Despite the fact they can modestly buy a quality product that will last, they’ll simply spend on the first cheapest item they see in a lazy attempt to “save money” rather than acknowledging or appreciating the wealth they have. They’ll spend on small extravagant things all the time such as expensive scented soaps, and because the size of the product is small, they can use their flawed logic to justify the purchase. When a purchase that needs to be done is a little more expensive, such as buying a new router, they’ll find the first cheap one on Amazon with an ok rating claiming that it’ll help save money, which it won’t in the long run.

These kinds of people often claim that they don’t have much and need to spend wisely, especially to appear more modest to others. They’ll continue living a pseudo-poverty lifestyle without putting in the effort to realize their priorities are in the wrong place. People who live this lifestyle often also act confused or disappointed in those with less income who spend more for quality items since they refuse to understand the alternative perspective.

Essentially, they’re an adult flavor of spoiled rich silver-spoon brat.
Billy was ashamed to invite his friends over because his parents lived in perverted poverty; he didn’t want people to think he would gloat his money just because his parents didn’t appreciate their wealth.
by juicybones June 19, 2023
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победить (pobedit)

A word used to describe a feeling of excitement or happiness derived from the ancient text of
created by sadly this text is now mostly lost to time and near-no records are currently available on the internet.
Person 1: YOU GOT TAYLOR SWIFT TICKETS!! NO WAY THATS SO победить (pobedit)
Person 2: IK WHEN I GOT TO THE FRONT OF THE QUEUE I JUST FELT THIS MASSIVE FEELING OF победить (pobedit)
Person 1: awesome
by ингаконопа July 13, 2023
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libertarian poverty

Since anyone can provide *services *, any libertarian can theoretically contribute to the libertarian economy.
Unless they are just in libertarian poverty, which means that they are a virgin incel.
Here, services implies sexual services.
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Concentrated Area of poverty

People more commonly use the term ghettos. The term is incorrect when describing Blacks in America. Blacks live in concentrated areas of poverty. Not ghettos that is a term that was used to describe where Jewish people lived.
Well I'm headed to a well known concentrated area of poverty pray for me.
by Lady that is real July 27, 2022
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The argument that poverty is not just a lack of money but a social status and material condition that is actively produced and maintained by systems. Laws, economic policies, discriminatory practices, and spatial planning (like redlining) construct barriers that prevent groups of people from accessing wealth, trapping them in a condition defined as "poor." Poverty is less an individual failing and more the outcome of a societal blueprint that allocates deprivation.
*Example: "Her neighborhood had no grocery store, bad schools, and predatory lenders—all while being a 10-minute drive from a booming business district. The Theory of Constructed Poverty explains this: it's not an accident. Decades of zoning, disinvestment, and policing policies literally constructed that landscape of need. The poverty was built into the infrastructure, brick by bureaucratic brick."*
by Abzu Land January 31, 2026
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