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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.
Nevermind having the opportunity to do organized sports and go on vacations that contribute to growing up and healthy and balanced environment and not wanting for anything
"Life sets you off." This is true for so many people. We need to understand and listen more. Makes me think of this songhttps://youtu.be/JcYaAu01Q2Y
Great thread
Neither of my parents graduated high school. Growing up poor is only a stigma if you let it be. Strong people make strong families, no matter their income.
I was raised by a single.mother who worked her ass off so we wouldn't be poor. I never felt embarrassed for that reason, but it absolutely is stressful and I'm sure was even more stressful for her than it was for me.
And AOC is a liar. She has fooled her district and her supporters. Your comments are true, thanks for sharing.
And the way the thalamic system works is via movement or progress toward a goal. Working class folks often remain static due to lack of mobility (and stagnant wages). This lack of movement means no dopamine production in thalamus. Meth/opiates mimic dopamine in thalamic system.
And stress can lead to physical and mental damage so it’s a viscous cycle.
one is an upper...the other is a downer.
THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I grew up not far down the road from you and was very poor. I have worked hard since I was 11. I enjoyed every minute of it and firmly believe that I am who I am because of it.
I grew up poor I’m the oldest of 10 . My father worked hard all his life & mom had a beauty shop in our house. A house we had because my dad’s brother gave it to him. We got government surplus food (there weren’t food stamps) Dad died at 47
Poor is when you have 14 recipes for a 6 pack of ramen noodles and 4 ways to make macaroni and cheese with no milk and butter. Poor is hamburger helper with no hamburger. Poor is having a stew and not asking what's in it because you don't CARE what's in it.
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