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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.
And alongside the fear of theft/violence the shame (that you mentioned) increases cortisol (stress hormone); it’s an effect of low social status; because we’re social animals. Heart disease is often the result of this chronic cortisol dump due to low social status stress. 1/2
There’s another thing the political class forgets. The psychic trauma of the Great Recession across America (and the rust belt specifically). Large companies cutting jobs during “good times” is scary AF for people who’ve *maybe* just managed to climb out of the wreckage.
Look up this movie it’s only cookie dough and book miracle in the mountains about Lynch, Kentucky poor people who had many problems after coal mine shut down and the power of prayer to GOD that changed everything.
Brilliant article.
2/2 The allostatic system is designed to get is to move away from “bad” things. This system loads us up with cortisol/epinephrine. But it kills us (via stress maladies like heart disease) if we can’t move away from the source of what roils the allostatic system: low social status
Good citation Mike : Sapolsky
Sapolsky is great!
YES YES keep talking!!
Dude you don’t know what you’re talking about, @SenSanders told us white people don’t know what it is like to be poor, which is shocking when one remembers he represents one of the whitest and poorest states in the country 
Yep and the old socialists stand with the new socialists because like your dad were all the working poor
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