• wheezy@lemmy.ml
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    16 hours ago

    Agree completely. I am just shocked at the amount of people that stop after your first bullet point.

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      15 hours ago

      the overwhelming majority of the country lives paycheck to paycheck or is otherwise one accident away from destitution

      keeping people just on that edge of survival but not literally starving acts as great tool for keeping the poors inline, has been the US’s bread and butter for many decades now