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There's still good in this world
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/42129527
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this post was submitted on 25 Jan 2026
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For 99% of the questions of "Why does it work like that in the US?" the answer is "racism". But this one has a nice overlap with the dominant US religion, which teaches its followers that being poor is a sin and poor people should be punished. Yes, even if you're a child.
Racism or religion doesn't really explain this? Or maybe it does but I'm missing the connection.
In Australia 90% of kids brought a sandwich to eat, from home. Some kids were given some money to order lunch from a cafeteria occasionally, but no one did that every day. We probably got to do that 5 or 6 times in 10 years.
If you didn't have money it was not possible to borrow or accrue a debt.
We don't let kids go hungry either, but there are other machanisms to resolve that.