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> we have never been so poor. I agree with the thrust of your post: the working class is rich in palliatives and bromides and poor in things that actually make

• ap22213 11y ago
  Or a 21st century poultry processing plant worker. I think his point is that those jobs still exist, the working poor are still suffering as much as they always have been, and that there's been a recent reversal in progress. My ancestors worked in shitty conditions that destroyed their bodies to see that their descendents could have a better life. And, here we are, and their descendants are living relatively as terribly as they did.