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One of the problems with trying to solve poverty is that focusing on "poor people" is a method that helps keep people stuck because you have to be poor to get t
by DoreenMichele 6y ago
One of the problems with trying to solve poverty is that focusing on "poor people" is a method that helps keep people stuck because you have to be poor to get the help.
Focusing on other characteristics that tend to correlate to poverty is a more effective means to break the cycle.
- monopoledance 6y agoThat's actually a good point. Tho, I think class is more than just income. E.g. you don't become upper class as a prostitute or drug dealer, just because you manged to get by well. Either way, within a class a white man will still have better chances for influence and freedom than a black trans woman. So gender and "race" are not obsolete classifications. However, I think any sense of identity is the cognitive fallout of experiencing lack of self-efficacy, chronically. Seeing the increase in white men building an identity around being "white" and male, too, indicates a wide decrease in class mobility. Pitching those identities against each other is indeed class warfare. Based Tucker Carlson: https://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalCompassMemes/comments/fwnwft/peak_auth_unity_achieved/ https://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalCompassMemes/comments/fwnw...