POVERTY BY AMERICA
Why America's Poor Remain Poor, With Matthew Desmond
Capitalisn’t S2E78

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktZP48gQbsE&ab_channel=StiglerCenter

Poverty will be abolished in America only when a mass movement demands it," writes Princeton sociologist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Matthew Desmond in his new book, "Poverty, by America." Building on his own lived experiences of growing up poor and continued contact with impoverished communities that "forces [him] to be intellectually honest," he claims that poverty persists in America not because we are incapable of preventing it but because society - and especially the wealthy - benefits from it at the expense of the poor.

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#Communist ideas have never resulted in a sustained growth in the well-being of the entire population. In all known situations, the construction of communism resulted in massive population #impoverishment, as in #capitalist countries with little #taxation. In the end, implementing the idea of comprehensive #wealth #redistribution is not much different from implementing the idea of pure or wild, minimally controlled #capitalism, because both ideals destroy the #middle #class and lead to #poverty.

Almost half the world’s linguistic diversity is threatened
"Some regions of the world such as South America and Australia are expected to lose all of their Indigenous linguistic #diversity, because all of the indigenous languages there are threatened."
https://theconversation.com/research-on-2-400-languages-shows-nearly-half-the-worlds-language-diversity-is-at-risk-204014

Australian Autochthonous #Languages
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Aboriginal_languages

The United Nations declared 2022–2032 the Decade of #IndigenousLanguages
https://www.unesco.org/en/decades/indigenous-languages
#Culture #Impoverishment #Monolingualism #Monoculture #Glottophobia #English #Australian #Language

#Impoverishment - The act of impoverishing, or the state of being impoverished; reduction to poverty.

#BiodiversityLoss - One can loose the keys, but not the variety of life on Earth. Let's call it #degradation, #impoverishment or #destruction.
#conservation #ClimateAction #extinction #language #BiodiversityCrisis

when you think life couldn't suck more, it just disappears from below your feet. #covid #familyissues #domesticviolence #impoverishment #visas #relationshiphardship #quarantine #christianrelatives #ilikedtotakesomeKnowthankyou