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TeapotInATempest

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1. I like these suggestions, but can we be honest?
Thu Feb 21, 2019, 05:07 PM
Feb 2019

There's a certain amount of class privilege in them. People working multiple jobs or caring for young children or elderly parents simply don't have time in the day for making everything from scratch, canning, etc. They also may not have the proper equipment (in my younger years, I had an oven that was so old the numbers had all worn off the temperature knob so I always had to guess what the oven temperature was set to, lol). People with various disabilities may be physically incapable of doing these things.

Not to knock the article, because I try to be as green as possible and believe that it's important, but I hear too many of my peers who get on a high horse about other people's perceived "failings" and I realize they've never been working-class or poor and don't seem to know how privileged they are.

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