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I think it's lacking in scope of what's possible in the future. If you stick to the status quo of how things are, then yeah, the future will be shit for most pe

• graeme 13y ago
  Maybe. It could always get worse though. The poor maintain their current standard of living in part thanks to laws and structures that protect this: minimum wage, food stamps, welfare, unions, Medicaid These tend to be in decline or under attack, sometimes with good reason. But there's no impetus to replace them with anything. Brazil may be our future. The low end goes very low there.
  • bernawil 13y ago
    Modern urban poverty as in Brazil is really rarely a matter of lack of resources. The poor in Brazil suffer from a poor organization rather than material poverty; people in favelas suffer the daily violence and rampant drug trade, but they don't really go hungry often.