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Eivind (like the Terrible)

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I like big books and I cannot lie

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Matthew Desmond: Poverty, by America (EBook, 2023, Penguin Books Ltd.)

The United States is the richest country on earth, yet has more poverty than any …

Det virker så åpenbart for meg at Desmond har rett i det meste her, men jeg antar det ikke vil gjøre det for det som i dag føles som den soleklare majoriteten, også i Norge, som sokner til fortellinga om kapitalistene som skapere og staten og fattigfolk som snyltere på deres 🤮verdiskaping🤮.

Matthew Desmond: Poverty, by America (EBook, 2023, Penguin Books Ltd.)

The United States is the richest country on earth, yet has more poverty than any …

When lawmakers have tried to curb pollution and traffic gridlock through congestion pricing, for instance, charging vehicles a fee if they enter busy urban neighborhoods during peak hours, critics have shot down the proposal by claiming it would hit low-income workers in transit deserts the hardest. In many cases, this is true. But it doesn’t have to be. We allow millions to live paycheck to paycheck, then leverage their predicament to justify inaction on other social and environmental issues. Politicians and pundits inform us, using their grown-up voice, that unfortunately we can’t tax gas-guzzling vehicles or transition to green energy or increase the cost of beef because it would harm poor and working-class families. My point isn’t that these tradeoffs aren’t pertinent but that they aren’t inescapable. They are by-products of fabricated scarcity.

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