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		tenebrisalietum on April 5, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How do we know the history of extreme poverty? (20... If trust-fund babies can coast through life without working, and those are taking over everything, when the poor still have to put in 12 hour days to live, even if they have it better than the past--that's not jealousy, that's simply asking why does person X have to work so hard when person Y doesn't under a system that supposedly claims all men are created equal.

throwaway98797 on April 5, 2021 [–]

all men are created equal under the law.

jjeaff on April 5, 2021 | [–]

Except we know having money gives you enormous advantage under the law. So we either have to fix the law or fix some of the inequality.

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