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Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
It is we who plowed the prairies; built the cities where they trade;
Dug the mines and built the workshops, endless miles of railroad laid;
Now we stand outcast and starving midst the wonders we have made;

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Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
look the poors may be smelly or whatever but the rich are literally asphyxiating the world with pollution

Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

Photosyphilis posted:

What is this from? I need to know

Part of the lyrics to 'Solidarity Forever'


All the world that's owned by idle drones is ours and ours alone.
We have laid the wide foundations; built it skyward stone by stone.
It is ours, not to slave in, but to master and to own.

Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

GORDON posted:

Correct me if I am wrong.... but the only reason the "poor" are more successful at reproduction (in America) is because they are kept from starving in the streets by the efforts of "the rich," if you want to consider the 50% of the population who actually pay taxes as "rich."

There's "poor," like we see in Africa where they drink and bathe in sewer water, and then there's "America-poor" who buy their frozen pizzas at walmart and have plenty of time to go downtown to babytown. The nonexistence of healthcare for the poor in Africa means only a small portion of the kids they have make it to survive being raped at the age of 8 by some AIDS guy thinking that's how he gets cured. In America the poor have government health care and WIC to make sure their many babies get formula, all paid for with tax money. And this is fine. I just wished any of that actually worked to not make them poor any more.

The rich have less kids because on average they wait until they are older and only have 1-2 kids. Meanwhile you've got broke teenagers pumping out kids because education and healthcare in this country are utter poo poo.

The poor stay poor because they are paid at just barely subsistence level and can't save any money, so if an emergency or life event happens they either have to borrow money or just get hosed.

The way out is save up investment capital and then do something reasonable with it but pretty much nobody can save up more than a grand or so.

Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

You lol but the average American household has less than $2000 in savings

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