You're Not Broke Because "You're Lazy," You're Broke Because You're Exploited
In my latest edition of “letters from Captain Obvious,” I’d like to address another foundational lie of the United States.It seems like every time I turn around, I have to listen to some other jerk scream, “poor people are lazy.”My cousin’s wife, who I’ve since blocked on social media, used to alternate her poverty shaming memes with her memes about being a devout Christian. I wrote her and said, “It’s not Christlike to poverty shame now is it?”She responded by telling me that’s not what she was doing, she was just mad about “people on welfare driving around in brand new SUVs.”Sigh…What we’re…
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