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I grew up low class, and expected my life to be hard - only I didn’t process it as “hard”; it was just how life *was.* I was going to have to spend the rest of my life doing minimum-wage physically-hard labor, and then getting pregnant. That was the plan, but more importantly-

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Aella

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It kind of has happened! Basically nobody dies of hunger in the US anymore. Lifespans are way longer, infant mortality is way down, even for the poorest. Quality of life is also way up (housing size, medicine, technology access) for even the bottom 10% of people.

8:12 PM · Dec 17, 2020

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There's a line in Pitch Black: it's amazing how you can do without the necessities of life provided you have the little luxuries. This is like the flip side of that. The things that change your life vs the things that change the perception of your life.

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The issue I have with observations like this is that they are put forward like their occurrence was inevitable as a result of the natural arc of progress and not fought for against resistance by those who would gladly go back to the old days of the poor dying on the streets.

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People die and/or experience debilitating pain because of poverty-based malnutrition linked to disease in the US at alarming rates. Moreover, poverty as a comorbidity in the US overall would perhaps cause you to rethink this overall perspective