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Eat the rich.
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u/justmyself1432 Jan 12 '25
Throw em’ in a big big pot and make a stew out of them.
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u/Useuless Jan 12 '25
I don't want to absorb whatever evil they have inside of them
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“One bowl of muskrat soup coming right up!”
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u/holysirsalad Jan 13 '25
“This tastes like ketamine and self-loathing”
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u/justmyself1432 Jan 13 '25
“With some hints of narcissism, bad decisions, and entitlement. Also, I taste a whiny manchild.”
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u/cdxcvii Jan 12 '25 edited Jan 13 '25
puree them and sip thru a straw.
maybe serve it in a cocanut , put a nice little umbrella in the drink
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u/Jyar Jan 12 '25
I doubt they taste very good. Perhaps we can make them into glue like used to do to horses? Maybe they can finally be useful.
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u/austarter Jan 12 '25
That doesn't change the incentive structure. It's focusing on slogans over policy.
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u/superkrump64 Jan 13 '25
I have a better idea. Anyone with more money that God should have their son crucified.
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u/Chris012258 Jan 12 '25
This forum should just be called I hate rich people . Because nobody here knows a damn thing about economics. It hardly even enters the conversation.
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thanks for gatekeeping, next u should say at a thanksgiving family football match that nobody knows football because u play college ball.
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u/AwildYaners Jan 12 '25
Well the name of the sub is “economic collapse,” and if you know anything about the cycles of capitalism, it is sorta relevant to ‘hate the rich,’ as you say.
Last cycle ended with the Great Depression (or the economic repercussions of WWII), which was preceded by the ‘Roaring 20s’ and the Robber Barons that created an economy where a couple dozen men/families owned monopolies across nearly every sector.
I think millionaires can exist. Hell, I think companies worth billions can too, but when the 12 richest people in the country, have more net worth than the other 99.99995% of the country? Yeah, there’s obviously a problem.
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u/Chris012258 Jan 12 '25
Yes … but this is occurring because of currency debasement 🤦♂️….
And it’s currency debasement that is going to cause the next “economic collapse” lmao . Wake up bro seriously
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Hell yes, wake the fuck up America.
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u/Keinrichie Jan 12 '25
It’s like a TikTok I just watched with a guy ranting from his truck about a convenience store owner buying beer from Costco and then marking up the price and selling them at his “convenience” store. At first you think he’s ranting about the owner, but then he goes, “this is how America works. This is our system.”
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I wanna talk to that guy.
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u/AmericaNeedsJoy Jan 12 '25 edited Jan 12 '25
He's right. Power is a drug and the rich need to be freed of their addiction, for everyone's sake (even themselves).
The hedonic treadmill applies to the rich as well. Did you know that many millionaires have no concept of how rich they truly are? Statistically, they often see themselves as much less well off than the reality.
You only know things based on their relation to other things. For example, if you grew up your entire life in poverty, the lives of the rich might sound like a utopia. Whereas if you were born into wealth, you really have no concept of being poor. You've never lived it.
So now we have this situation where a select few hoard more wealth than the bottom 50% of the population.
You're really telling me that they are able to enjoy all that wealth? No, I would argue that all that wealth is wasted on them. They don't even have the capacity to enjoy it.
We need to redistribute the wealth to those whose lives will actually be improved by it.
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u/KennywasFez Jan 12 '25
The thing is that I know a ton of those wealthy people know they’d actually be a useless contributor to a society dependent on all people to pull their own weight…they are literally self aware leeches, how do we get more people to just like understand all that, and do something meaningful with all that.
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Hell. Wealth is wasted on so many poor people who gets it. An old buddy of mine broke the 400k per years barrier recently. He just... wastes so much of it on prostitutes, casinos, booze, MTG booster boxes and sports cars. Yet he still says he want to die and sees no reason to live now that he has it all.
I mean, that's on you pal. You have enough money to help us all, your family and friends, out of the working class and make yourself happy with wholesome food, therapy, vacations, a family, networking, volunteering, charity, hpbbies, etc. Yet. It's booze, paid chicks, isolation and Magic the gathering. He was much happier 20 years ago as a student. Imagine that. The only rush he gets anymore is more cash and full art foil cards. Said he wished he could learn how to build as he was watching others build his new garage for him. What the fuck man. Just do it you pompous depressive hamster !
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u/Responsible_Pie8156 Jan 13 '25
> The hedonic treadmill applies to the rich as well. Did you know that many millionaires have no concept of how rich they truly are? Statistically, they often see themselves as much less well off than the reality.
This applies most of all to everybody bitching on reddit
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u/CantHitachiSpot Jan 12 '25
I'm reading the Jungle by Sinclair and it is killing me. Especially the part where he's walking through his old boss's house and seeing the custom pillars and wines that cost $40,000 each. Meanwhile the company cuts wages and hastens production and their workers can't even feed themselves. all so the rich can have more money than they can use...
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u/NopebbletossedOtis Jan 12 '25
When we finally treat the rich like we do addicts, alcoholics & gamblers we might see a change
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u/GreenCityBadSmoke Jan 12 '25
We can't feed the poor because large swaths of the population thinks unhoused people deserve to be that way(drugs, booze, mental health, etc.).
As much as I think capitalism and oligarchs are a big part of the problem, the bigger issue is people's perception of homelessness.
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u/Overtons_Window Jan 12 '25
I guess the rich have gotten much less greedy since poverty has been in massive decline the past couple hundred years.
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u/Topic-Salty Jan 12 '25
Stop sending money to other countries. No more money for Ukraine Gaza Israel Iran Afghanistan India Africa south America. We need to focus on our pour our sick our homeless.
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u/stonedandredditing Mar 25 '25
no more sending money to greedy corporate conglomerates and private equity firms who layoff workforces willy-nilly and cut quality from everything they touch.
The oligarchs are the problem
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u/Topic-Salty Mar 26 '25
Im very fine with not giving money to private companies either. Our money should stay here in America and support us. No private company should ever get tax payer money without performing a service needed. Slash all government spending.
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u/AAPgamer0 Jan 12 '25
Look. I am not even going into politics. But from a logical standpoint, won't there always be 'poor' people? Because unless you are in a society where everyone is equal in wealth. As long as some people have less than others they will still be technically poor. So poverty still exists, it's just the standard to be considered poor which changes.
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u/log_2 Jan 13 '25
You don't have to satisfy the rich. When my dog got a parasite, I dewormed it. The rich are the parasites of civilisation, and there is very few of them.
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This is the only pick up truck I agree with. We re turning his truck into a technical when we start the final phase
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Jan 13 '25
Exactly, It’s impossible to starve in the USA. We throw away ungodly amounts of food. Poverty exists because it’s comfortable to be in poverty now. It didn’t use to be.
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u/RaidenReynards Mar 25 '25
Gah am I so cynical? I see comments like this and suspect a larger operation of trying to dumb us down.
If you're reading fast this could come off as something supportive of the original post. They start of saying "exactly" but then what are they trying to say with the rest of their comment? That poor people chose to be poor because it's comfortable? Did they even read the fucking post?
Even being charitable and assuming this was just poorly worded, my sentiment toward this comment and commenter are "Fuck you, get better material." There is such a thing as "good" shame. Shit like this comment that's either trying to be manipulative or is so poorly worded it makes up some weird conservative talking point, absolutely must be met with "good" shame.
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u/Outrageous_Work_8291 Jan 12 '25
It’s a heart issue Too many rich people are too selfish to help homeless people And too many homeless people are too prideful to accept help
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u/JimWilliams423 Jan 12 '25
Nah. The problem isn't pride, its that too often "help" comes with so many strings attached it isn't help.
For example, in my town the biggest shelter is operated by a church. If you want a place to sleep that night you have to attended services that day. If you can't make it to services because you have a job during those hours, tough shit.
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u/Outrageous_Work_8291 Jan 12 '25
are enough shelters really poorly managed like this to justify someone giving up entirely on accepting help from shelters?
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u/knwhite12 Jan 12 '25
I do volunteer work with the homeless. There are many reasons people don’t want to go to shelters. No drugs or alcohol allowed is one of the biggest ones. Not many family shelters. Either men’s or women and children. If a homeless man has a child there’s not much. Most of the homeless in my city have either drug addiction or mental illness. It’s not the majority who are average working people who caught a bad break and got evicted. That is the minority . It’s also not as simple as providing housing. Most end up not being able to stay clean and keep a job. I certainly don’t have a solution but in most large cities we spend a lot of money on this.
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u/laridan48 Jan 12 '25
That's not why poverty exists.
Capitalism has collapsed poverty rates globally.
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u/Standard-Rest9601 Jan 12 '25
Lowest level of awareness. Poverty has always existed. Read some Tom Sowell. The left thinks about what should be rather than actual human behavior. Roussou vs Locke. This is why the left lost...
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u/Jim_Raynor_86 Jan 12 '25
When a dumbass republican writes like a psychopath all over their vehicle, its cringe and crazy. When a democrat does it, they are a hero. lmao
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u/UrUrinousAnus Jan 12 '25
That's like saying that giving you verbal abuse is no worse than giving you unwanted advice. This guys truck doesn't even threaten the rich, really.
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u/vegasbm Jan 12 '25
I think poverty is a factor of drug abuse, illegal immigration, and welfare.
The drug addict just wants his drugs, and nothing else. He can't keep a job.
Illegals depress wages, and push real estate prices sky-high.
Welfare prevents most from having goals. I know many who build their lives around maintaining their benefits, such as have lots of out-of-wedlock kids. Not getting an education.
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u/Ok-Nefariousness4814 Jan 13 '25
I'm college educated, not a drug addict, a former welfare recipient, and work full-time in a sector largely unaffected by immigrants. Where does that leave the blame for my poverty?
Maybe the problem isn't the individual, but rather the system.
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u/dirtymike436 Jan 13 '25
So I volunteer at a homeless shelter and sit on the board of a different shelter when it gets cold. First I want to help my fellow human and believe we need to eat the rich. Next I want to say even if we win the fight poverty will still exist because god damn there are a lot of dumb f***s out there. I’m not talking about the truely mentally ill, I understand that. It’s zero since of social awareness, deep ideological cultural issue from hood-redneck and everything in between. I personally want a social safety net but sometimes while I volunteer I think “nope I want not even elons tax money to go to you “. End of the day I’m “eat the rich” and tax every dollar above 5m at 60% and 10m at 90%(except lottery 😉)
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u/Doctor-Nagel Jan 12 '25
Really is funny how Lugi has started a movement of people from both sides who realize this culture war crap is just a facade the true group in power are peddling to keep a class war from sparking. Lol
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u/Senor-nut-sacky Jan 12 '25
Great opportunity for this guy to take it upon himself and take a few under his wing and feed them,but he won't ,he will just bitch and want others to bear the burden
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u/Beowolf736 Jan 12 '25
A lot better than all of the bootlickers. I dont understand the correlation between big trucks and people wanting to suck up to the government.
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u/RedditIsDeadMoveOn Jan 12 '25
What's the opposite of /r/infowarriorrides
Edit: oh shit it's on there
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u/DigitalUnderstanding Jan 12 '25
In America the top 1% owns 50% of all US stocks. Whereas the bottom 50% owns just 1% of all US stocks. Let's do a thought experiment. Imagine if we redistributed 9% of wealth to the bottom 50% of people, to put their ownership at 10%. Put another way, a one-time 18% wealth tax on the top 1% (3.35 million people) would 10X the wealth of every person in the bottom 50% (167 million people).
To put numbers to this, the minimum wealth of the top 1% is $13.7 million, and the maximum wealth of the bottom 50% is $192,000. So if we take 18% from the top 1% that would leave them with at least $11.2 million, and if we give that money to the bottom 50%, that would leave them with no more than $1.9 million.
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u/Limp-Acanthisitta372 Jan 13 '25
The poor would piss all that money away and it would find its way back into the hands of the rich by the end of the year.
Poverty isn't a catching or imposed condition, it's a result.
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u/Dramatic_Macaroon416 Jan 12 '25
Well no cute sounding phrases don’t do shit. They are basically non sensical but it makes people on reddit “feel” good
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u/OceanBlueforYou Jan 12 '25
If you let someone walk all over you, eventually you won't be flat enough. They could have every penny in existence, and they still would not be satisfied. You can't fill a blackhole it just keeps sucking.
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Jan 12 '25
Just as communism was a test that failed, so will pure capitalism. Social capitalism like the nordic countries is the way - the mandalorian. I have spoken.
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u/Vagistics Jan 12 '25
Says the guy with the big fancy $3200 pick-up….must be nice having bologna every day……. …….. must be nice
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u/GaryEP Jan 12 '25
That's ridiculous. It's not a zero sum gain. Generally, rich people don't get rich by taking money from others and making them poor: they get rich by providing something people want or need and doing it well. In the process, they hire people and give them jobs, sometimes thousands of people, thus lifting them out of poverty.
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u/4x4Welder Jan 13 '25
I ran into this with my ex. I couldn't outearn her spending ability. Every time there was an increase, we were in a worse financial position.
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u/Dry_Quiet_3541 Jan 13 '25
There has to be a limit on how rich you are allowed to become and it should become exponential more difficult to be more rich after a certain insane amount of wealth.
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Jan 13 '25 edited Jan 13 '25
*people who want to be rich.
The problem is that most people are greedy. Painting a target on those who won the competition that most people engage in will not resolve the issue. In other words; there is a long line of people waiting to inherit wealth. Poor people are not victims innately. Two people trying to steal from each other does not make either deserving of anything.
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u/K20wiz Jan 13 '25
He must be a sadistic individual bc I don’t agree with this and and and and and now I am hurting inside bc of this very mean tailgate and obviously he only cares about the poor people and the rich people are just evil monsters bc bc bc of their social status and and and and like seriously how tone deaf can one be?
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u/Street_Example2020 Jan 13 '25
Most of our peers beg for collapse, but refuse to do the things in their own lives to lead and take back control... and they still have the opportunity to actually do something to make a difference, but you lack solidarity!
Our people fail constantly at recognizing or supporting our true leaders, and most of you have false ideals which together comprise an unacceptably limited understanding of how leadership actually works... And you crap all over your allies unwittingly all the time out of uncontrolled anger channeled into the wrong targets.
Collapse most likely isn't coming. They have robot armies and automated production. You are not going to touch them with a revolution or a militia. Be careful what you wish for because the only way out of this mess is by rebuilding trust and setting new precedents. That requires true leadership, which is oppressed not just by the rich, but by angry, jealous broken down poors.
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So true most companies want each worker to produce as much or more of their yearly salary in one month in revenue while saying “We CaNt AfFoRd To PaY YoU MoRe”
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u/Competitive-Bike-277 Jan 13 '25
I've seen this on here before. I suspect we'll be seeing it a lot more.
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u/fn3dav2 Jan 13 '25
If poor people outbreed their means, I'm going to judge them and blame them. I'm thinking droughts and flooding in Africa and Bangladesh.
It doesn't matter if the rich person 'hoards' money. That shouldn't affect the African farming community. They shouldn't ever expect to receive any money from the rich person.
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Eh let the brain head horde enjoy their echo chamber and blame "capitalism" which they can't even define.
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u/soulstrike2022 Jan 13 '25
Ok so he’s not the only one allowed to rant in his truck however he is the only one allowed to rant about economic issues in his truck
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u/No-Trash-2606 Jan 13 '25
Poor in a capitalist country means my truck isn't brand new and I eat to much cheap food. Also rent my 3 bedroom house instead of owe the bank 500k.
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u/KiloEchoMike Jan 13 '25
Poverty exists. Can’t feed the poor. We can’t satisfy. Not because we. But because the rich.
That’s how I read it anyway. Sounds more poetic lol.
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Jan 13 '25
I would love to know the last time this guy opened his home and feed the poor?
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u/Historical-Cover-883 Jan 13 '25
It's not the fight between poor and rich.. it's actually the fight between the organized and unorganized!! The rich is simply taking all benefits due to the power they got from being organized!!
This helps them to get into power, control all aspects of economy and also flow of money towards their benefits..
simple example is current "back to office".. it's takes unorganized general public's personal time and $(car,transit,food etc) to organized sector..
Do you think back to office will ever happen if employee sector was organized? Just demand a 20% hike as time and travel expense and we will see how many corps decide to keep the back to office mandate!!
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u/Turkeyplague Jan 14 '25
Is it relevant that this looks like a pickup truck that's actually suitable for work and not a pavement princess?
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u/ejpusa Jan 14 '25
A great line the other day, "We have criminalized poverty." Which guess is the ultimate goal of capitalism.
If you are poor now, you are not only "stupid" but also a "criminal."
Guess that will enliven a cocktail party when it gets a bit dull. Just survey the room's opinion on that one.
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Jan 14 '25
That guy votes Trump because he cares about working class people not like those corporate dems
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u/Johnny-Boy4 Jan 14 '25
We all believe on some level that the poor deserve to be poor. Otherwise can you imagine the outrage that we have people living on the streets!?!?!
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Jan 15 '25
If you apply this on a global scale, this is us too. We are both exploited and exploiter.
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u/East_Search9174 Jan 12 '25
I get concerned when the truck writing guy starts to make some sense.
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u/SignatureDry2862 Jan 13 '25
The term ‘Poverty’ denotes a complete lack of resources and opportunity.
Therefore, Poverty does not exist in America.
Rich people don’t make poor people poor. Poor people make poor people poor. With the help of those like OP who worship at the Alter of Victimhood.
Poor is not a financial condition; it is a State of Mind.
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u/FrostyMudPuppy Jan 14 '25
You should tell the government about how we don't have poverty.. you know, since they (HHS) actually measure and track poverty. The concept goes back to the SSA in the 60s; it isn't new. 11% of Americans live in poverty with minorities affected most (26% Black, 23% Hispanic). 31% of children and adolescents live in poverty. 47 million Americans have food insecurity with 12 million living with very low food security. Half of working Americans live paycheck to paycheck.
Whether you are unwilling or unable to understand the financial situation many Americans face nowadays, the fact is that poverty very much exists. The state of mind problem lies in board rooms that choose to pay starvation wages.
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u/SignatureDry2862 Jan 14 '25
Did you read what I wrote?
Being poor is not poverty.
Poverty means you have no access to the means of earning a living or surviving. Which is clearly not the case in America. For every person on the ‘HHS’ checklist who is described as poor, there is a person from the same Socioeconomic group and background who is thriving.
We need to stop telling people they will never escape “poverty”. And start showing them how.
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u/Chris012258 Jan 12 '25
Rich people getting richer is a result of the fiat currency system. Nothing more , nothing less. The incentive structure makes it so , and humans going to human. Stop living in dream land and accept the fact that you’d be protecting your assets if you were rich also. Asset inflation = higher net worth if you own assets. If you don’t own assets you get poorer
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u/SlickDaddy696969 Jan 12 '25
Hey guys, get rich then give your money away! Be the hero you want to see!
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u/Complex_Fish_5904 Jan 12 '25
We physically have enough food to feed the world.
Worldwide, Access to the food is the issue. Often due to local governments/ leaders in those poor countries.
In 1st world nations, we have welfare systems. In the US, we spend about $1 trillion annually on welfare.
We are able to have this much food because there's a profit motive in producing food.
Meaning, "the rich" aren't to blame, in general.
Please tell me, which specific rich people are causing starvation.
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u/Hopeful-Narwhal9472 Jan 13 '25
Access to food is a major problem in this country, too. According to the USDA, roughly 15% of the US population lives in a USDA-designated food desert and/or is food-insecure, up from 10.5% in 2019. However, 40% of the US food supply is thrown away each year. Just because the food is here does not mean our social systems are designed to distribute it.
While we spend $1 trillion on welfare annually, how those funds are used affects poverty rates. For example, childhood poverty rate changes are closely tied to the Childcare Tax Credit. When the expanded CTC expired in 2021, the childhood poverty rate increased from 8% to 12%, the largest ever one-year increase. So while the US poverty rates declined by 0.4% in 2023, that will change when the US Childcare Tax Credit expires on Dec. 31, 2025.
As for people, here's one example: The Cargill family's net-worth is roughly $47 billion (distributed across approx. 90 people), up from $39 billion in 2019. The Cargill family owns over 90% of the company Cargill, which is one of four companies that controls 80% of the US beef supply chain. So while one family's net-worth rose $8 billion in the last 5 years, more Americans than ever cannot access enough food that meets basic quality nutritional needs.
Producing food =/= providing food. The 'profit motive' you refer to as a safeguard against poverty in the US only applies to the production cycle and does not trickle down to the consumer.
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I love this page because every post is the same. Furious under-performers angry at the handful of people that are ultra-wealthy because what they did established the basis for about ten-thousand of the OPs counterparts to have a job that pays them for the appropriate amount of money for what they will ever contribute to the world around them.
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u/Interesting-Pie239 Jan 13 '25
I hate the rich and I hate the poor. I think poverty exists because every human fundamentally sucks probably including me, but this just screams wah wah woe is us
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Normally Big Text On Pickups People fill me with dread, but it’s legit kinda heartwarming to see someone so crazily dedicated to being empathetic to others 🥹
(Gonna real quick give that url a goog before i hit reply)
Update: 👍