It’s not even that, society has joined the war against poverty, on the side of the rich against the poor. We hate the poor, we want them to be hurt. Thank Fox for that bullshit.
DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
You could go a step further and ask why we don’t just build cheap, temporary, no-cost housing for the same purpose. The answer is that we absolutely could (financially), we just choose not to (politically).
Our society has collectively decided that there is some acceptable number of preventable deaths due to lack of housing/food/medicine. Those in power choose not to address these problems, and those who would address them don’t have the power.
teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
I don’t think most people want to see poor people hurt, I think they’re just apathetic, especially to problems that are far enough away to ignore. Raise my taxes to help someone a thousand miles away? Hell No! Donate to the local Salvation Army? Here’s $20.
teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
The poor have been demonized for 4 decades plus in rw media, and it’s bled through to the controlled opposition long since. While many people you know might not openly endorse fucking the poor, that is neither here nor there. How do you not already know this?
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
I do actually think most people want to see poor people hurt, just in very passive detached ways.
They want poor people to not be allowed to have fun, to be forced into borderline slave labour, etc.
UpperBroccoli@feddit.org 3 days ago
It is actually worse. Homeless people remind us serfs what will happen to us if we are not obedient enough. The cruelty is on purpose.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 3 days ago
“precisely 74% of you will die”