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How America Manufactures Poverty
- mitchbob 4y agoArchived: https://archive.ph/Lqgk2 https://archive.ph/Lqgk2
- mitchbob 4y agoFrom the article: “We need not be debt collectors or private prison wardens to play a role in producing poverty in America,” Desmond goes on. “We need only to vote yes on policies that lead to private opulence and public squalor and, with that opulence, build a life behind a wall that we tend and maintain.”
- quantified 4y agoAh well. If you don't want to spend much, someone's not going to get paid much. And the closer someone is to desperation, the more you can get them to consider doing that isn't really in their interest in exchange for helping them a little. So it's economically in the interests of the wealthy to make sure a lot of people are poor.