• LustyArgonian@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    People love paying extra for the cruelty.

    At least in countries with shanty towns, the poor are allowed to live in squats. We don’t even give people that tiny grace. We don’t even give them free cheap cars to live in parking lots, or vouchers for mechanic repairs for the cars they live in. We’d have shanty towns if we allowed it. We just hide it rather than see how bad things really are.

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      And those shanty towns often get mass transit services so the people can get to work.

      In America (and Britain), towns specifically avoid serving very poor areas for fear that they might actually use it.