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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
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"
Also "I can't afford to fix or replace anything and if my car breaks down I'm fucked"
slowly getting more and more behind on your mortgage payments of your tiny 2 bedroom house in a rural area until you are forced to sell because rates were hiked and wages stagnated
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.
What do you do?
Sounds like any job I can think of, tbh. Teacher, nurse, lawyer, firefighter, middle management.
I talked to a guy who was really desperate to define poverty as literally dying of starvation in the street.
That's the thing with liberals, they pride themselves of how they want to help the poor but somehow you always have to be poorer than the concrete people you're talking about in order for it to be real poverty.
Sounds nice.