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* JoblessParentDrana: A family faces financial difficulties because one or both parents are now unemployed.


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* UnconfessedUnemployment: Someone won't admit to their own friends and family that they've lost their job.
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An index for tropes dealing with lower-class people living in squalor, debt or bankruptcy, unemployment or homelessness, or just having an overall lack of wealth or fiscal standing.

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An index for tropes dealing with lower-class people living in squalor, debt or squalor and/or struggling with debt, bankruptcy, unemployment or unemployment, homelessness, or just having an overall lack of wealth or fiscal standing.

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An index for tropes dealing with lower-class people living in squalor, debt, unemployment, homelessness, and an overall lack of wealth or fiscal standing.

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An index for tropes dealing with lower-class people living in squalor, debt, unemployment, debt or bankruptcy, unemployment or homelessness, and or just having an overall lack of wealth or fiscal standing.



* BasementDweller: A grown man still lives with his parents, because he's chronically unemployed (or works a crappy job) and thus can't even afford his own house.

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* BasementDweller: A grown man still lives with his parents, because he's a chronically unemployed {{NEET}} (or works a crappy job) low-wage job), and thus can't even afford his own house.



* DogFoodDiet: Someone eats pet food, because other kinds of meals are too expensive.



* DyingTown: Small towns with economic hardships.

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* DyingTown: Small towns with severe economic hardships.



* ForgotToPayTheBill

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* ForgotToPayTheBillForgotToPayTheBill: This can happen if someone just doesn't have enough money to pay for their important bills.



* {{NEET}}: Someone who is '''N'''ot in '''E'''mployment, '''E'''ducation, or '''T'''raining. In other words, an adult who is not currently a college student and is also unemployed.



* PotteryBarnPoor: Despite barely scraping by, a characters home is furnished with items that they could not afford without sacrifcing food or rent.
* PovertyFood: Because food that's healthy and tasty is out of their budget.

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* PotteryBarnPoor: Despite barely scraping by, a characters character's home is furnished with items that they could not afford without sacrifcing sacrificing food or rent.
* PovertyFood: Because food that's both healthy and tasty is out of their budget.budget.
** DogFoodDiet: Someone eats pet food, because people food is too expensive.



* StreetUrchin

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* StreetUrchinStreetUrchin: Homeless orphans and street children.
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An index for tropes dealing with lower class squalor, homelessness, and an overall lack of wealth or fiscal standing.

Contrast with RichPeople, LuxuryTropes. See also ClassRelationsIndex for how lower class people interact with other social classes.

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An index for tropes dealing with lower class lower-class people living in squalor, debt, unemployment, homelessness, and an overall lack of wealth or fiscal standing.

Contrast with RichPeople, RichPeople and LuxuryTropes. See also ClassRelationsIndex for how lower class people interact with other social classes.



* BasementDweller: A grown man still lives with his parents because he can't even afford his own house.

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* BasementDweller: A grown man still lives with his parents parents, because he he's chronically unemployed (or works a crappy job) and thus can't even afford his own house.



* CrazyHomelessPeople: Homeless people are depicted as being mentally ill.

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* CrazyHomelessPeople: Homeless people are often depicted as being mentally ill.ill, as mental disorders can be both a cause and effect of homelessness. Bonus points if their mental state is being affected by a drug addiction.



* DogFoodDiet

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* DogFoodDietDogFoodDiet: Someone eats pet food, because other kinds of meals are too expensive.



* HomelessPigeonPerson

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* HomelessPigeonPersonHomelessPigeonPerson: Hobos with pet pigeon birds.
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* StreetUrchin
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* DublinSkanger: A stock character in Irish media who's usually working class and extremely violent.
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Contrast with RichPeople, LuxuryTropes.

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Contrast with RichPeople, LuxuryTropes. See also ClassRelationsIndex for how lower class people interact with other social classes.
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** SuckySchool: Poorly funded schools are staffed by teachers that are [[ApatheticTeacher jaded]] or [[SadistTeacher mean spirited]], run by [[DeanBitterman an indifferent or sadistic principal]], lack up to date technology, and use outdated text books.

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** SuckySchool: Poorly funded Poorly-funded schools are staffed by teachers that who are [[ApatheticTeacher jaded]] or [[SadistTeacher mean spirited]], mean-spirited]], run by [[DeanBitterman an indifferent or sadistic principal]], lack up to date up-to-date technology, and use outdated text books.textbooks.
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* MundaneLuxury: A common, widely available, item will be considered an extravagant treat by anyone who can't afford to buy it on an everyday basis.

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* MundaneLuxury: A common, widely available, available item will be considered an extravagant treat by anyone who can't afford to buy it on an everyday basis.
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* MundaneLuxury: A common, widely available, item will be treated as an extravagant treat by anyone who can't afford to buy it on an everyday basis.

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* MundaneLuxury: A common, widely available, item will be treated as considered an extravagant treat by anyone who can't afford to buy it on an everyday basis.

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* ImpoverishedPatrician: A once-prestigious aristocrat that used to be rich, but is now struggling financially.
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* ImpoverishedPatrician: A once-prestigious aristocrat that used to be rich, but is now struggling financially.
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** SuckySchool: Poorly funded schools are staffed by teachers that are [[ApatheticTeachers jaded]] or [[SadistTeacher mean spirited]], run by [[DeanBitterman an indifferent or sadistic principal]], lack up to date technology, and use outdated text books.

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** SuckySchool: Poorly funded schools are staffed by teachers that are [[ApatheticTeachers [[ApatheticTeacher jaded]] or [[SadistTeacher mean spirited]], run by [[DeanBitterman an indifferent or sadistic principal]], lack up to date technology, and use outdated text books.
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** SuckySchool: Poorly funded schools are staffed by teachers that are [[AppateticTeachers jaded]] or [[SadistTeacher mean spirited]], run by [[DeanBitterman an indifferent or sadistic principal]], lack up to date technology, and use outdated text books.

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** SuckySchool: Poorly funded schools are staffed by teachers that are [[AppateticTeachers [[ApatheticTeachers jaded]] or [[SadistTeacher mean spirited]], run by [[DeanBitterman an indifferent or sadistic principal]], lack up to date technology, and use outdated text books.
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* RichLanguagePoorLanguage: Rich and poor characters are distinguished by their accents and/or dialects.
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* MundaneLuxury

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* MundaneLuxuryMundaneLuxury: A common, widely available, item will be treated as an extravagant treat by anyone who can't afford to buy it on an everyday basis.
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** SuckySchool

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** SuckySchoolSuckySchool: Poorly funded schools are staffed by teachers that are [[AppateticTeachers jaded]] or [[SadistTeacher mean spirited]], run by [[DeanBitterman an indifferent or sadistic principal]], lack up to date technology, and use outdated text books.
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* FriendsRentControl

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* FriendsRentControlFriendsRentControl: Realistically, a character does not earn an income to justify such ample lodgings.



* PotteryBarnPoor

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* PotteryBarnPoorPotteryBarnPoor: Despite barely scraping by, a characters home is furnished with items that they could not afford without sacrifcing food or rent.
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* PauperPatches

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* PauperPatchesPauperPatches: A character's tattered, patched-up clothes indicates poverty.
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* HorribleHousing: A character lives somewhere crappy to emphasize their bad living situation.
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* CreditCardDestruction: Someone who maxes out their credit card has it cut up by a store.

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* CreditCardDestruction: Someone who maxes out their credit card has it cut up by a store.shopkeeper.
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* CreditCardDestruction: Someone who maxes out their credit card has it cut up by a store.
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* LintValue: Offering far to little money to buy something, often because it's all they have.

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* LintValue: Offering far to too little money to buy something, often because it's all they have.
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* LintValue: Offering far to little money to buy something, often because it's all they have.
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* RichSuitorPoorSuitor

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* RichSuitorPoorSuitorRichSuitorPoorSuitor: Someone has two {{love interest}}s of vastly different economic backgrounds.
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* DisposableVagrant: Most people don't really notice or care about what happens to homeless people, which makes them easy prey for kidnappers and murderers.
** DisposableSexWorker: Prostitutes and strippers tend to be at the very bottom of the socioeconomic ladder, thus making them easy targets for {{serial killer}}s and [[SerialRapist rapists]].

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* DisposableVagrant: Most people don't really notice or care about what happens to homeless people, which makes them easy prey for kidnappers and murderers.
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DisposableSexWorker: Prostitutes and strippers tend to be at the very bottom of the socioeconomic ladder, thus making them easy targets prey for {{serial killer}}s and [[SerialRapist rapists]].rapists]].
* DisposableVagrant: Most people don't really notice or care about what happens to homeless people, which makes them easy targets for kidnappers and murderers.
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* MockMillionaire: A lower- or middle-class person pretends to be upper-class.

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* MockMillionaire: A lower- lower-class or middle-class person pretends to be upper-class.
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* FallenOnHardTimesJob: A person desperate for money will take on a job that they, and society, sees as unglamorous and/or undignified.
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* BarefootPoverty: Someone who can't even afford a nice new pair of shoes.
* BasementDweller: A grown man still lives with his parents because he can't afford his own house.

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* BarefootPoverty: Someone who Some people are so poor that they can't even afford to buy a nice new pair of shoes.
* BasementDweller: A grown man still lives with his parents because he can't even afford his own house.

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* MockMillionaire: A lower- or middle-class person pretends to be upper-class.



* PrinceAndPauper: Two {{identical stranger}}s, one [[SecretlyWealthy upper]]-[[SlummingIt class]] and the other one [[MockMillionaire lower-class]], decide to switch lives and disguise themselves as each other.



* SecretlyWealthy: A rich person pretends to be poorer than they actually are.
** SlummingIt: A wealthy person pretends to be poor because they're curious about what life is like for the less fortunate.



* SlummingIt: A rich person pretends to be poor because they want to know what things are like for the less fortunate.
** PrinceAndPauper: So they decide to switch lives with an IdenticalStranger who is poor.

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