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To sum it up- poverty brings you the experience of a thirld world enviroment. Western poverty does not do this. Most folks suffering western style poverty have
by yummyfajitas 11y ago
To sum it up- poverty brings you the experience of a thirld world enviroment.
Western poverty does not do this. Most folks suffering western style poverty have an abundance of food, clean water, power, sanitation, leisure, education and health care. Having just come back from India, it's not even a close comparison.
Any stress/existential crisis/dread is purely based on status envy or pathologies caused by other (relatively) poor westerners.
- nitrogen 11y agoThis kind of judgmental appeal to worse problems is completely counterproductive to solving western poverty, and ignores those who do not have access to abundant food, leisure, and health care. This can happen for a number of reasons, including stigmatization of welfare assistance, lack of awareness of available programs, incomes too high to qualify for aid but too low to live on (especially for those poor who do not have children), medical conditions that prevent one from reaching the social services before 5PM close (even things as simple and unappreciated as chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, delayed sleep phase, and PTSD), or lack of transportation ($5 for food, or for bus/gasoline?).