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    4 months ago

    The original post is that 50% of Americans consider themselves ‘broke’.
    @[email protected] a solution that would be considerate if 0.1% of working class Americans considered themselves broke.
    @[email protected] offers an analysis why a ‘pull yourself together’ solution doesn’t work when the issue starts hitting 50+% of a nation. That means there’s something systemically going wrong and any suggested ‘pull yourself by the bootstraps’ solution is going to be met with more and more anger from a larger and larger crowd.