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ZRT2209

(1,357 posts) Sun Aug 4, 2013, 12:07 AM Aug 2013

It's easier to blame the poor than to admit the system is broken.

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It's easier to blame the poor than to admit the system is broken. (Original Post) ZRT2209 Aug 2013 OP

Why would you want it fixed if it being broken is to your benefit? PowerToThePeople Aug 2013 #1

Was there ever a working system that eliminated poverty here? bhikkhu Aug 2013 #2

PowerToThePeople

(9,610 posts)

1. Why would you want it fixed if it being broken is to your benefit?

Reply to ZRT2209 (Original post)

Sun Aug 4, 2013, 12:14 AM

Aug 2013

You are expecting them to be decent people? There was a post earlier on a Berkley study showing how money effects people.

bhikkhu

(10,712 posts)

2. Was there ever a working system that eliminated poverty here?

Reply to ZRT2209 (Original post)

Sun Aug 4, 2013, 12:44 AM

Aug 2013

I think a system has to be in place and working before you can call it broken. What we've had is a system designed to maintain people in poverty at a certain level of misery. On the theory that misery will drive them to go get jobs and be cheap labor for someone or other.

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