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Poverty Is the Enemy

Nour Boustani
6 min readAug 7, 2022

Poverty is the most disgusting topic to write about; it's so gross that I don't wish my most hated enemy to have a taste of it.

I'm going to piss off many people in today's article, but I'm OK with that; I like to slap some numb brains on the neck and hit them with ideas that challenge their beliefs and rotten views.

The best way to describe the broken or poor mindset is to boil a frog slowly under a small fire; over time, the frog becomes comfortable and numb to the heat, then suddenly, Oops, R.I.P., dear frog.

I have a friend who used to be striving financially like a king; he went into a few stupid deals that made him lose a fortune. I had dinner with him three days ago, and his way of talking turned from a king to an enslaved person and has significantly differed from how I used to hear him talking three years ago.

He was competitive and wanted the best life at the best standard for himself and his family; nowadays, he speaks like a pussy.

He said things like: "it's OK to be poor, it's OK to eat garbage food, let me check for the latest deep discounts, god has punished me for my doing, and it's my fate to be broke." Hey, hey, Stop it!

I hit him on the mouth and told him to shut up, or I would shove the whole massive lobster in his mouth and make him die suffocating.

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Nour Boustani
Nour Boustani

Written by Nour Boustani

Hit the sweet spot or leave it be.

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