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>The solution is quite simple: Don't live in a food desert. For the people on HN who tend to skew towards wealthy white-collar work this is fine advice, but it
by BoxOfRain 5y ago
>The solution is quite simple: Don't live in a food desert.
For the people on HN who tend to skew towards wealthy white-collar work this is fine advice, but it's absolutely not possible for a lot of people from lower incomes. Not only can they not afford to move, they can't afford to leave their entire social support structures and build them anew.
- hypertele-Xii 5y agoExcuses. History is rife with entire peoples migrating to greener pastures. If they wanted to move and eat better, they would.
- BoxOfRain 5y agoI propose an experiment, find someone to look after your savings and belongings for a while and move to a new city with nothing more than US$500 or equivalent. You may not have friends or family within seventy miles of this location, nor a pre-arranged place to stay. You can come back for your money and possessions at any point, but if you don't last more than six months then you have to do a write-up on HN of your experiences and admit that poverty is more difficult to get out of than your naïve assumption.
- throwaway22032 5y agoThey also can't afford to eat shit and have a shit life as a result.
- BoxOfRain 5y agoExactly, the notion that the poor are poor because they're inherently feckless and therefore deserve their poverty is an idea that's long past its sell-by date. These are the systemic issues of our day, and they won't be solved by sneering at the people affected.