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Re:How America Manufactures Poverty by Spooky23 on Sunday March 19, 2023 @12:34AM (#35216072)
Your observation makes the point. We’re living in a nation almost drowning in wealth, yet many among us see no issue or feel no culpability in bettering the dreadful state of our neighbors.

As a society we like to cast moral failures to circumstance. It’s easy to roll your eyes at the trailer trash and ignore the reasons why those folks are where they are.

Re:How America Manufactures Poverty by tastyfreeze on Sunday March 19, 2023 @02:04AM (#35216449)
You are free to donate all the money you want to your neighbors.
Re:How America Manufactures Poverty by djrobstep on Sunday March 19, 2023 @02:46AM (#35216647)
Unfortunately poor people are not free to acquire the food they need or live in shelter without being violently attacked for doing so if they fail to pay money to property owners.

Poverty isn't voluntary - it's violently enforced at the point of a gun.

Re:How America Manufactures Poverty by kilpikaarna on Sunday March 19, 2023 @03:50AM (#35216924)
Good ol’ making systemic issues questions of personal morality
Re:How America Manufactures Poverty by Spooky23 on Sunday March 19, 2023 @03:44PM (#35222782)
Thank you for reinforcing the point! Let them eat cake.