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In reply to the discussion: 80 percent of U.S. adults face near-poverty, unemployment, survey finds [View all]Lars28
(84 posts)12. Some people lack moral imagination.
They sneer at homelessness when they are one paycheck away from being homeless themselves. "Not me!" they say, "I could always find a job." This is a mantra that people repeat to themselves because they have to, in order to keep their faith in themselves to survive in our market system, where the value of everything, including labor, goes up and down with the laws of supply and demand. The moral blindness to the hard luck of others is a byproduct of our national religion of self reliance.
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80 percent of U.S. adults face near-poverty, unemployment, survey finds [View all]
kpete
Mar 2014
OP
Yes, I think that is kind of how we got to where we are at. If more people had understood what the
jwirr
Mar 2014
#3
Why are we talking about anything else either here on DU, ior in the White House and Congress?
hedgehog
Mar 2014
#6
K&R. I see it all around me ... and I was, at one time, solidly "middle-class".
SaveOurDemocracy
Mar 2014
#8
I still believe that the biggest part of the problem is that the "haves" are out of touch
Dustlawyer
Mar 2014
#11
Hey, those tax havens are there for the poor to use as well as the rich.
Jackpine Radical
Mar 2014
#17
Reaganomics has succeeded as planned . 3rd world yes . Now the poor will put Rethuglicons back in .
geretogo
Mar 2014
#22