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[-] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 65 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The most radicalizing thing you could do to someone would be to force them to live like they're poor in the US for a few months

If they don't come out a frothing leftist, they're hopeless

[-] underisk@lemmy.ml 63 points 8 months ago

so many people think of "poor" as just "unable to afford luxuries" when it's more like "I have a job but dont have the ability to pay bills and eat regularly this month, and this isnt unusual or likely to change"

[-] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 31 points 8 months ago

for me it's having a job that used to be considered "middle class" that I work full time and net like -$100 every month even after strict budgeting. Living perpetually on the edge of homelessness despite doing everything I was told to do growing up.