#Poor

Steve Horwitz

sghorwitz

@AOC is selling $58 "Tax the Rich" sweatshirts and bragging that they are US made. So much for actually helping the poor.1. By making shirts here, she is denying employment

Jessi Sheron makes mermaid comics

JessiSheron

you don't gotta punish people for being poor. you already won. they are poor. "poor people should only be allowed to buy healthy food!!" shut up. that shit is demonic.

wesinjapan

wesinjapan

The whole "Huh huh look at socialists doing capitalism." is kind of weird. I think a lot of people think socialism/communism is like vegetarianism/veganism- differing levels of personal abstention rather

Z.D.

zbigdu

Why renters don't necessarily want their suburbs or cities to "improve", get more economically developed, have better architecture etc under the current system and how to change it. A short

Eugene Gu, MD

eugenegu

Racism was a tool to divide poor whites and indentured servants from black slaves to keep everyone from rising up against wealthy but outnumbered plantation owners taking advantage of everyone.The

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Prettybrains08

Been meditating on this the last several days, “the poverty of the poor is their calamity.” Prov 10:15In other words, it’s the mindset, which govern habits & lifestyle, that keeps

Paul Bernal

PaulbernalUK

On ‘child poverty’ - and I expect to get attacked for this. The focus on *child* poverty is partly a mask for something not nearly so pleasant. Children are ‘innocent’,

Alison Trollop

AlisonTrollop

Often (you'll see throughout history), the gentry expects the workers to do the grunt work so that they can have a nice life. But they don't want to pay enough

Still Here

kristenmchugh22

This is part of why I went on an auto-didactic spiral on Economics. Which I hate, but which is very informative once you stop buying into economic punditry and look

Nathan W Walker

nathanisariot

I'm so tired of the concept of rural poor white = "White Trash"You know who's trash, Limbaugh, McConnell, Trump. People who've seen the world and decide to demonize it for

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Kobold_Kavalier

This always resonates with me. If you haven't been dirt poor, or worse, homeless, you don't know what it's like to be poor. Your opinions are purely academic. I once

Jamil Mouawad

JamilMouawad

(1) Judging from the media, mobilizations in #Tripoli are led by young people from the most marginalized neighborhoods in the city (Bab-el-Tibaneh...). They suffer from high poverty & rely mostly

Jamie Kyle

buildsghost

I don’t know who needs to hear this. But as someone who grew up in a family that had to pick between which bill was getting paid this month, let

Katherine Apostolacus

Phenomenologiae

One of the worst things about online church (beside not getting the Eucharist) is the Church being alienated from the poor and homeless. Not only do these populations have very

Geoffrey M. Wardle

Geoffrey_Wardle

I spent an hour and a half this last week with a group that have jobs but lack housing stability. Each and every one of them articulated that microhousing or

grace spelman: totally exonerated, no wrongdoing

GraceSpelman

Keep seeing tweets blaming a poor education system for the behavior of Trump supporters. Claiming they believe conspiracies bc they didn’t take a history or civics class is just wrong.

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