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  • theunknownmuncher@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.worldPoverty does not rule
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    8 days ago

    Keywords: “usual or socially acceptable”. To say that people in the distant past were living in poverty because they didn’t have access to the same technologies and wealth we have today is ridiculous and a fundamental misunderstanding of poverty.

    So… is it impoverished people just aren’t doing the hard work to keep from starving that the great cave people did, then? Or…? 🙃



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    Of course poverty is natural.

    Nope, you’re wrong.

    That’s why humans have always banded together to create wealth. Frist thing a tribal society does is try to store up food and create tools to get more food. Then they try to get clothes and shelter.

    What you’ve described is literally just living and surviving. So… what, people who are experiencing poverty are just not working to acquire food, clothes, and shelter like they should be? Or is there something, unnatural, that prevents them from actually doing this?

    Poverty is unnatural and is created by an unnatural system that is purely man-made. Your example actually demonstrates it perfectly, back before the invented system, people were free to survive the way they needed and were without poverty.