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When you grow up poor, you FEEL the elite's mistakes before anyone. My dad aced all of the tests for the Illinois State Police. He was denied a job due to racial discrimination. Our lives would have been fundamentally different if he had got this job.https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1997-10-02-9710020230-story.html …
The worst part about growing up poor is other poor people. You leave your bike out, it might get stolen. Your windows might be broken. You might get jumped. There are a thousand annoyances like this, large and small.
When you grow up poor, you don't glamorize it. These new socialists, mostly spoiled white kids, claim to feel solidarity or some shit. It sucks. But poor people aren't bad. The problem is being poor damages your entire body and mind. Sapolsky is right:https://news.stanford.edu/news/2007/march7/sapolskysr-030707.html …
When you're poor, you're stressed. On edge. Life sets you off. Physiological level stuff. Multiply that across a neighborhood and you have a lot of street fights, domestic violence, drinking, smoking. That was when I grew up. Then people turned to meth and now opiods.
The thing about being poor....Everyone gets is wrong. My dad was high IQ, but there weren’t any jobs. Start a business! Selling to whom? Everyone was broke. These are complicated issues, I have an education, I lived in poverty. And the answers? I legit don’t know.
I do know that my life would have been different without Christianity. Poor people have the same problems, but poor Christians avoided the vices like drinking and smoking, and philandering. They had hope. Probably that’s why I’m such a pro-Christian...who is not a believer.
Marx called religion the opiate of the masses (though there is more context to what he meant). Poor people lost religion and found....opioids. Religion offered hope of another life. We can empirically see what post-Christian America looks like. A stadium of overdoes a year.
Factories closed. Towns fell. You know what saved a lot of small towns? Prisons. Small towns began competing to become the home of a new prison. (One reason decriminalization arguments don’t land is because crimes are prisons are jobs.)
Whenever you talk about poverty, people jump in to remind you it’s worse elsewhere. Why? Because poverty isn’t something we’re supposed to notice in America. It’s the forbidden topic.
My story from Ky: Grew up 40 mi from town in a rundown 2 BR house on 40 acres. We didn't own the land. We got to live there because my stepfather tended the tobacco and corn for the owner...
Running water but no indoor toilet. Wood heat. No AC in Summer. We cut and sold firewood in winter to supplement income. We even paid our family doctor in firewood and fresh eggs. Our food CD and from what we grew and hunted as well as the USDA handout once a month
As collected scrap metal in summer; and ginseng and walnuts in fall. Anything we could do to gain a little extra.
Can I ask, in your opinion, what the single best thing to change would be to improve the situation? Because it seems to me that with the way things are progressing, the likelihood of the class divide being rectified grows smaller with every year.
And those are the things that happened to you. Many more good things don't happen to you as result of being poor
This is so true and the reason liberal forced integration like the "fair housing rules" the Obama Admin had towards the end will never be tolerated in America. It's a spread-the-misery idea. Put a crime problem in every neighborhood.
Got mine stolen twice.
Had to walk my paper route until I could buy another to have it stolen again.
Yup, my only bike was stolen and I was beaten up a few times. Thankfully I was a pretty good street fighter and bullies figured out I wasn't going to be easy prey.
Or gang Gun Crossfire killing kids on their way to school in Philly inner cities...
I got jumped a lot because I had the audacity to like to read.
Growing up poor makes you feel inadequate. You don’t have the cool shoes or clothes. Parents of wealthier kids don’t want you around and teachers in the good schools expect nothing of you. You’re sidelined.
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