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Re:The Decline of Deviance by potato3732842 on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @09:23AM (#45746514)
If you are destitute for any length of time these days you'll likely wind up entrapped by various sorts of welfare systems one of which probably has some sort of cliff you can't scale on your way out. If it's not the food stamps that gets ya it's sec8.

If you were totally destitute in 1900 or 1800 you might starve. But the costs incurred on your way back up were more like steps than cliffs.

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Re:The Decline of Deviance by rsynnott on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @10:33AM (#45747363)
> If you were totally destitute in 1900 or 1800 you might starve. But the costs incurred on your way back up were more like steps than cliffs.

"Back up?" Ever heard of workhouses, or debtors' prisons? There wasn't a 'back up', generally.

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