Idea. What are some things about your Lived Experience are well-captured; distorted or contradicted; or simply ignored, by the Discourse? Pls speak freely, and follow-up repliers kindly hew to 2d Inaugeral Rules (malice toward none, charity for all). Will moderate aggressively.
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Replying to @eigenrobot
there was gang activity targeted at my family (including me) when i was growing up the ways in which the black market economy, criminal violence, poverty, class stratification, and gang structure are mutually stuck in in a disastrous equilibrium is not coherently in discourse
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Replying to @decorinius @eigenrobot
ironically enough, the very structure of the problems prohibits most people from living multiple sides of it almost no one with cultural cachet understands the underbelly well enough to communicate coherently about it
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Replying to @decorinius @eigenrobot
for example, some gangs specifically target promising smart kids from poor families they have trouble recruiting credentialed smarts, so they start early and activelly invest time, money, and energy into supporting them this is often great economic opportunity for the child
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Replying to @decorinius @eigenrobot
many smart children born into poor families struggle to relate to both their peers and their family this leaves them particularly susceptible to being pulled into gangs it's an economic opportunity, but it's also a mentorship program in a world where mentorship does not exist
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Oh wow--that is fascinating and I would never have considered this. It makes a lot of sense.
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