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Easily the least compassionate people I’ve ever met are those who’ve broken out of bad circumstances by individual effort. The depth of their contempt and hatred towards those still stuck in prisons they’ve broken out of is astounding. Exit guilt or something.
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Poverty is a grinding thing, it tries to pull you back in many different forms. I don't think it's simply hatred/contempt, it's much deeper, it's pain, anger, a fight to stay above and a scarring of the past.
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I think it's a very different lived experience, I grew up in some challenging situations as a kid and I often get accused by friends of mine of being less compassionate but I've learned not to talk about my experiences as it freaks "normal", middle class and above people out
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things like regular violence, law breaking and most human vices exist underneath the layers of the middle class, it rarely raises itself up out of the poorer layers but when it does it freaks people out but when you grow up poor or in certain hoods, these are regular things
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The third world is basically a place where the middle class bubble is much weaker and you can’t avoid being a continuous spectator even if you aren’t part of the theater of squalor and degeneracy yourself. It’s not hidden out of view on the other side of the tracks like here.
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yeah weirdly, I feel fairly comfortable in the more developed parts of the third world, one example of how, in US cities, when I walk around, I still have this weird feeling I might be jumped at any moment, it's an echo from my past but it's still wired in there
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