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this post was submitted on 29 Sep 2023
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I wasn't raised on a ton of "breakfast is the most important meal of the day" propaganda to start skipping it now, dammit
When people have nothing more to eat, they will feed each other to the rich and hope to survive on the scraps.
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We're too deep in. Poor people will just die. Everyone will wait for the moment to stand up but that will likely never come.
That's the subtle genius of our system.
Being poor is treated as a temporary state. If someone is poor now, our culture injects the hope that they can work their way out of it.
On top of that, success is seen as the result of choices. So poverty must also be the result of choices.
Until our society admits poverty is really hard to escape, and success depends on luck and rich parents, the rich are going to keep eating us.
Don’t try to spread your cowardice
There's not as many of them now, so we'll all have to share.
There are only ~750 billionaires in the US.
There shouldn't be any... 
Is this real? Holy shit! That’s some sadistic unfeeling human garbage writing. “If you’re poor, just starve. And be grateful for the opportunity.”
The NYT recommended suicide in an article about student debt recently.
You should be thankful for your student debt:.https://www.savingforcollege.com/article/why-you-should-be-thankful-for-your-student-loans
That Kristen Kuchar's a bit of a bitch, huh?
Oh, and lookit that. She's a professional blogger who writes mostly about drinks, not a financial expert.
She attended Columbia college of Chicago, a for-profit private vocational (arts) college. Average cost 25k/year after aid. Either mom and dad paid for that so she has no bills, or she wrote that article wholly trying to make herself feel better about saddling herself with enormous debt in a career (journalism) that has been dying for a few decades. So she turns to writing uninformed junk for trash websites and blogs.
Those private art schools are so lucrative Goldman Sachs bought 40% of The Art Institute. Those vocational for-profits were a way to siphon government loans to private investors with no care what was happening to the student, their job prospects or debt. Because of the utter abuse of the federal loan system Congress passed laws a out the percentage of funding that could come from the government, a very low number like at least 10% or something had to be put up by the school...almost all of them closed shortly thereafter as the gig was up.
Looking now, funny timing, looksikr AI closed for good last week! https://www.republicreport.org/2023/the-art-institutes-long-time-career-college-operation-dead-at-103/
Not even going to ask for a source. NYT has done worse.
Let's see the proof please.
There's one. It was the first link on a web search.
Wall Street Journal, The voice of the people
When the people have nothing to eat they're thrown into a war. No people - no problem. © Stalin.
Sad but true, history repeats itself. A WW III would be perfect and, look, we're actually on the verge of it. Wonder what will be equivalent of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand's murder this time.
There are plenty of deadly conflicts going on right now in poor countries. And their rulers and dictators are going just fine. History repeats itself for sure, yet many still bark nonsense like "eat the rich".
You won't eat the rich, the rich will eat you and you'll be happy about it.
The poor are going to be too weak to fight, and the relatively comfortable liberals will chide them and tell them they should vote for Hitler (D) instead of Hitler (R) and that is the only way to "get out of this mess."