yewler

Did it occur to you that they didn't say generational poverty was a culture on top of lack of resources, but that the lack of resources actively wasn't a part of what makes someone impoverished. That sounds a lot like bootstrap mentality to me.

I have close friends who grew up under the poverty line, and to tell me that their life experiences were nothing but their mentality was a kick to the teeth.

We have the resources to be able to properly address material lack. Is the flawed mentality really the impoverished mentality, or is it the one that finds a certain percentage of the population to be an acceptable, even natural, even necessary poverty rate? The mentality that supposes that every member of society should earn their own privilege to exist? It seems like one of these mentalities is much, much more harmful than a set of defense mechanisms that protect individuals psychologically from systems that are literally designed to exploit them.

We should not be trying to mold poor people into being ideal wage laborers. We should be making society more inhabitable to human beings.

It was, unfortunately, yeah.

My freaking God. I volunteered at a local charity org a bit this summer and one of the first things they told us in orientation was that "most people think that poverty is about what people lack. But it's actually a mindset." That pissed me the heck off not gonna lie.

We have had the solution for hundreds of years. Most people, however, don't want to hear it.

The very system you defend is everything but a neutral experience where everyone can live their lives. You don't think capitalism actively holds people down? Look around.

Except that many of us, including myself, live reasonably comfortable lives under capitalism? It's an extremely selfish position to be satisfied with a system that has done good things for you personally, but has ravaged the lives of countless others.

It's not about free stuff. It has never been about free stuff. It's about the fact that a society is bad if it allows a minority population to get richer, without first ensuring that everyone's basic human needs are satisfied.

Heyo that's dope! Definitely adding that video to my watch later. Thanks for explaining that.

And while I would say that's based, sadly the law does not agree 😭.

How do reflections work? Aren't changes in direction caused by acceleration? Also aren't photons affected by the gravity of black holes? How does that work?

I hate that. I never noticed that. This is my first job where I've had to do these types of training. I've worked food service until now. How anyone could say this kind of crap and not realize they're a bad person for doing so astounds me.

I understand where you're coming from, but I'm also confused what you expect to happen in the comments of a post like that. Would you rather people be rooting for billionaires in the comments? Or just a couple "damn that's crazy"s? In the former case, there's quite a lot of capitalist apologetics on this platform already, and I honestly envy you if you don't encounter it frequently. In the latter case, personally I would find that boring, though I suppose that's a matter of opinion.

Yeah I getcha. In my mind, capitalism does do a lot of good things, but it always seems to be at the expense of human life. And to me, the good that capitalism brings isn't a justification of the countless lives ravaged in order to make the lives of the privileged comfortable.

I totally agree with you that one has to make certain compromises in order to enjoy life with the cards we've been dealt. We can't be doom and gloom all the time, that's just miserable. However, not everyone has that luxury, as many people have had their lives irreparably destroyed by capitalism. I think it's totally fine and healthy to personally compromise with capitalism, because that's the only way someone has a chance at not living a horrible life. But I do stand by my previous statement that claiming that Nordic "socialism" is evil is not an unreasonable take. Capitalists do run amok in these countries, just not in the same ways as more traditionally capitalist countries.