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[CapnAwesome]

For the record,  for the working poor, like me, 500 dollars is a huge amount of money.  

Forgive me for being skeptical, but your lifestyle is not exactly typical of 'working poor' - but I'm sure they're glad you're here to speak for them.

I can go on a month long climbing trip with it.

Exhibit A.

Thats true enough. Im a pretty atypical example of a poor person in the U.S. insomuch as i dont pay rent, have a college degree and choose to live this way. Regradless I am the working poor, even if i actually don't work for much of the year, technically homeless and well below the poverty line. I just happen to choose to live that way, in order to persue a lifelong passion of mine. Why more people dont live this way, i have no idea. Presumably that 500 bucks means just as much to other poor people as me. Just in a different way.