Oh, thank God. I just read through the other post on this article in the 'Welcome to the Forum' section and was flabbergasted. People over there are talking about minimum wage and poor people neither one of which has nothing to do with the article.
The only person I have any twinge of sympathy for is the single mom earning $45,000. Raising two teens alone can't be easy, and I bet there are days she's just too tired to cook. I'll try to reign in my judgey-mcjudgerson self for her.
The rest of those people? With their purebred dogs, splurges on video games, and $600 amplifiers? Pfft. Zero sympathy. None. None whatsoever. They can sell some of the trash they've accumulated, stop going out to eat, rent out a room, and maybe think before getting a purebred dog next time.
Also, Latin might be a dead language, but Greek isn't. I'm willing to bet the one lady could scrounge up some paid translation work if she tried. She could probably teach and tutor to adults over the internet too, a lot of people are bored right now and would probably like to learn a new language.
That whole article left a bad taste in my mouth.