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Re:U.S. Jobless Rate May Soar to 30%, Fed’s Bullard Says by Twixes on Sunday March 22, 2020 @10:14PM (#22660660)
Poverty is a consequence of a specific type of liberty: economic liberalism. Few poor people are where they are because of simply having made bad deals. Mostly they were just dealt a bad hand in life and are being exploited by those who were dealt a much better one.
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Re:U.S. Jobless Rate May Soar to 30%, Fed’s Bullard Says by nostrademons on Sunday March 22, 2020 @10:47PM (#22660802)
In a liberal economy, pretty much all poor people are where they are from having made bad deals. That does not mean that they had good deals available to them. One of the other (unfortunate) consequences of liberalism is that people are free to setup the deals they offer to other people such that all deals available are bad deals.

My comment is not intended to be a value judgment on either poor people or rich people, just a description of why things are the way they are.

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Re:U.S. Jobless Rate May Soar to 30%, Fed’s Bullard Says by bombingwinger on Monday March 23, 2020 @02:31PM (#22667106)
Basically a zugzwang in chess
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