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POVERTY IS A FEATURE NOT A BUG
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this post was submitted on 20 Sep 2023
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The world will never recover until poverty is seen not as a character flaw, but as a failure of society itself to provide for the most vulnerable.
They wouldn't be vulnerable if they just overcame their own biology and lifetime of trauma. Its that simple, they arent trying hard enough.
What do you mean by "overcame their own biology"?
I think he's trying to make a joke by appealing to the absurdity, like pulling yourself up by the boot straps. Literally impossible.
Though Poe's Law and general stupidity are up lately, so...
Literally people born with or contracting disabilities that leave them permanently destitute due to you not being able to eat or house yourself without work you can't do because your disabled.
And because of how disability works in the US, if they want care they're legally forbidden from ever having money so...
They're being satirical. They're saying it's virtually impossible to not succumb to poverty if you have disabilities, trauma, or racial prejudice working against you.
The simple fact of the matter is that most things most people do are simply input -> biology happens -> output. Breaking that hardwired process that happens in the background for every miniscule decision you make is the basis of like, every kind of therapy, self-help, meditation routine, etc.