#poverty

[evidenceofdespair]

[thoughtportal]

[left-reminders]

[pavlovadiplomacy]

[titleknown]

So, we now know on a direct statistical level that Dollar General is literally making the Vimes Boots Theory of Economic Unfairness into a part of its core business model.

Sweet jesus...

[berniesrevolution]

You’re Lucky You Have a House, Peasant!

A history of company towns

by Joyce Rice and Kevin Moore

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[odinsblog]

Nothing is simple when you’re poor.

[themadcapmathematician]

People should dunk on food banks more for giving people expired or nearly expired food actually I'm done being nice abt that. You won't let homeless people dumpster dive behind a fucking McDonalds but you'll make someone show their ID so they can get 5 cans of spagettios that went bad in 1947 lmfao hell world

[whatevergreen]

A national health service and a full care system, a right to housing...

No wonder the Economist is terrified.

[entitledrichpeople]

The elderly poor will have their food taken away while still dying by the thousands every week from the pandemic that isn’t actually over.

These cuts are horrifying in general, but they’re particularly cruel to households with members who are newly disabled from covid/have worsened disabilities from covid or who are trying to reduce exposure to save their lives from a society that doesn’t care if disabled people die as long as they can go to bars and eat out.

[ceevee5]

[queerism1969]

[left-reminders]

[johnnyjava]

[pratchettquotes]

The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. [...] The thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet. This was the Captain Samuel Vimes "Boots" theory of socioeconomic unfairness.

Terry Pratchett, Men At Arms

[theconcealedweapon]

If your justification for poverty wages is "they agreed to it", then you can't complain when they stop agreeing to it.