Don't lay this at the feet of government. Government may be sociopathic and unfeeling but the state doesn't generally meddle in petty matters of poor people wh

Don't lay this at the feet of government. Government may be sociopathic and unfeeling but the state doesn't generally meddle in petty matters of poor people who have little to no wealth to extract or redirect except to curry favor with other elements of the population. Lay this at the feet of the individuals who thought they knew what was right for everyone and leaned on the government to act. Be that action local zoning, state laws or federal thumb on the scale money with strings attached behavior. Ideally, you'll even see the pattern and use it to crap all over contemporary examples of the same.