Daniel AJ Sokolov · @newstik
503 followers · 1781 posts · Server social.heise.deWow.
"The FCAC's 2020-21 COVID-19 #Financial Well-being Survey showed that approximately 2 per cent of #Canadians used an online non-bank lender or #PaydayLoan company in the previous 12 months."
Payday loans are crazy #expensive, often close to 60% p.a. (sixty!) if you include the fees. Charging above 60% is #criminal #usury in #Canada. However, loans of up to $1500 are exempt, so the typical payday loan #lender could charge even more.
#poverty #money #ripoff #poor
#financial #canadians #paydayloan #expensive #criminal #usury #canada #lender #poverty #money #ripoff #poor
Hiisikoloart · @hiisikoloart
24 followers · 246 posts · Server writing.exchangeWhen you are #poor a highlight of your week, or month, or even year can be something as simple as a new #pen.
I just looked into my pen case (while doing my bullet journal - ak.a my Brain) and saw a pen my partner bought me some time ago and it made me happy.
It is green. It is nice. I love it.
Gladwyn d’Souza · @godsouza
173 followers · 3130 posts · Server sfba.socialThe #problem is that we all to often have #socialism for the #rich and rugged free enterprise #capitalism for the #poor.
#TaxBillionairesOutOfExistence #UniversalBasicIncome
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“The Minister to the Valley,” February 23, 1968, From the archives of the SCLC
#problem #socialism #rich #capitalism #poor #taxbillionairesoutofexistence #universalbasicincome
SLCW💥 · @slcw
393 followers · 4363 posts · Server newsie.socialSarah #Huckabee is the worst. And I mean THE WORST. As governor of a #poor, floundering red state, you might think her #policy #agenda would include #legislation that improves the lives of her constituents, and improves the state's abysmal rankings in categories like health outcomes, education, and economy. NOPE! Sarah is, instead, focusing on cutting #taxes for the wealthy, stopping efforts to mitigate #COVID, and weakening #FOIA laws to protect her from #accountability
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/sep/9/arkansas-gov-sarah-huckabee-sanders-calls-special-/
#huckabee #poor #policy #agenda #legislation #taxes #covid #foia #accountability
Nando161 · @nando161
912 followers · 39437 posts · Server kolektiva.social
"I live well below the #poverty line, so I live in a cheap, slummy apartment #building where #everybody else is poor, too. For the most part, I like this setup. I grew up in poverty, and I’m not comfortable around moneyed #people. (It’s a topic for another day but people with money are really weird about, well, money. You can’t even talk about it around them.) But it definitely has its drawbacks. My neighbours and I are always running out of #food and #meds.
One of the many things I like about poor people’s culture, though, is that we tend to be really good at #sharing #resources. It makes sense: when you’re short on money, you need to have strong relationships to get by. Of course I’m going to give you what you need if I have it–I’m definitely going to need something you have in the very near future. Besides, when we’re all in the same boat, none of us is likely to believe that the reason I can eat today, and you can’t, is that I deserve it more than you, but next week when you can eat, and I can’t, it’s because you worked harder than me. Most of us are well aware that we’re going to stay #poor, no matter how hard we #work."
#poverty #building #everybody #people #food #meds #sharing #resources #poor #work
Steve Dustcircle ⍻ · @dustcircle
171 followers · 4504 posts · Server mastodon.cloud
OccuWorld · @OccuWorld
196 followers · 459 posts · Server hear-me.social@objkshn
Surreal scene in so-called San Diego: police freeze and stare off into the distance as the star spangled banner plays while they wait for trash trucks to destroy the remaining property of poor people.
#classwar #waronpoor #police #theft #property #poor #homeless #patrioticdisplay #sickvirtuesignaling #surreal
#classwar #waronpoor #police #theft #property #poor #homeless #patrioticdisplay #sickvirtuesignaling #surreal
woodrat :a_bike_frog: · @woodrat
6 followers · 178 posts · Server urbanists.socialA #Christian derides a #CasteSystem as #evil unless they're measuring it with #money
#christian #castesystem #evil #Money #rich #poor
Steve Dustcircle ⍻ · @dustcircle
165 followers · 4360 posts · Server mastodon.cloud
#RightWing Bonus Tracks: #Hate the #Poor
https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/right-wing-bonus-tracks-hate-the-poor/
Steve Dustcircle ⍻ · @dustcircle
164 followers · 4270 posts · Server mastodon.cloudHow the #WaronPoverty Stalled;
The study of #poverty has flourished in recent decades. Why haven’t the lives of the #poor improved?
https://newrepublic.com/article/174677/war-poverty-stalled
joe•iuculano :mastodon: · @iuculano
739 followers · 20125 posts · Server masto.ai'Poor eat better than rich': #Italy's #foo sovereignty minister sparks outrage with shock statement
The #Italian minister #FrancescoLollobrigida claimed that #poor people in the country "eat better" because they shop directly from farmers and producers.
#italy #foo #italian #francescolollobrigida #poor #melonivergogna #poveraitalia #fdi
DW English - Deutsche Welle · @dw
3853 followers · 4582 posts · Server mas.toInflation, COVID plunges 68 million into poverty in Asia
#COVID-19 #pandemic #coronavirus #inflation #cost-of-living #Asia #poor #women
#women #poor #asia #cost #inflation #Coronavirus #pandemic #covid
Gladwyn d’Souza · @godsouza
162 followers · 2683 posts · Server sfba.socialThrough their #consumer #choices to save money at all costs, many liberals as well as conservatives have come to depend on #gigeconomy industries. They have sometimes also played an active role in #housing and #school #segregation, all in the name of doing what’s best for their families, even though they know that they are #sustaining a #regime that keeps the #poor poor.
#consumer #choices #gigeconomy #housing #school #segregation #sustaining #regime #poor
Gladwyn d’Souza · @godsouza
162 followers · 2683 posts · Server sfba.social
#ManufacturingPoverty: #poverty persists because it is lucrative for everyone who doesn’t experience it themselves. The #poor experience poverty—but it is the rest of us who help #generate and #sustain it.
#GreenNewDealJobs #CapitalismCreatesOligarchs #FossilFuelsDegradeSubsistence #AllJobsShouldBeUnionJobs #booksofmastodon #Bookreview
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/poverty-by-america-matthew-desmond/
#manufacturingpoverty #poverty #poor #generate #sustain #greennewdealjobs #capitalismcreatesoligarchs #BooksofMastodon #bookreview #fossilfuelsdegradesubsistence #alljobsshouldbeunionjobs
Sascha · @hugo_the_baerliner
6 followers · 28 posts · Server berlin.social
With the strengthening of the #afd (in #germany) we should not forget that the rich also have to bear their responsibility.
They have already addressed their responsibility after the 3rd Reich.
https://piped.video/watch?v=-WX5zOdMprc
Especially in view of climate change and the gap between rich and poor.
#climatechange #fckafd #poverty #poor #socialjustice #fascism #nazi #3rdreich #3Reich #Republicans #repubican
#AfD #germany #climatechange #fckafd #poverty #poor #SocialJustice #fascism #nazi #3rdreich #3Reich #Republicans #repubican
nosat · @nosat
310 followers · 7725 posts · Server liberdon.com
steve dustcircle ⍻ · @dustcircle
330 followers · 10956 posts · Server masto.aiThe Dependency of #Poor Nations
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/08/17/the-dependency-of-poor-nations
#poverty #mutualaid
Nando161 · @nando161
817 followers · 36529 posts · Server kolektiva.social⭕️ Regardless of the years that have passed, we cannot forget that on a day like today 18 years old #ThanasisKanaoutis was thrown out of a moving #bus and thus was murdered by ticket inspectors in #Athens for not having a ticket worth € 1.40.
"In #capitalism, our #crime is being #poor"
This is a #hiphop #song written by #Javaspa for him.
:antifa_100: :acab: :acab2: :acabkitty: :clowncop: :nocops: :pig_cop: :txt_eff_the_cops:
10χρόνια πριν, στις 13 Αυγούστου του 2013 λίγο μετά τις 11 το βράδυ, δολοφονείται από ελεγκτή σε τρόλλει στο Περιστέρι ο 18χρονος Θανάσης Καναούτης. Το "έγκλημα" του ήταν να είναι άνεργος χωρίς εισιτήριο αξίας €1,20.
#thanasiskanaoutis #bus #athens #capitalism #crime #poor #hiphop #song #javaspa
pafurijaz · @pafurijaz
217 followers · 1759 posts · Server mstdn.social
#Capitalism was fed and endorsed by the best minds, they were aware of what they were doing, so who cares about the #poor, #schools inaccessible to the poor and by making increasingly marked privileges.
We needed Joshua #Clover to understand that capitalism is not a good economic system, which plunders the planet and fuels social differences.😂
https://www.bunkhistory.org/resources/how-stanford-helped-capitalism-take-over-the-world
#clover #Schools #poor #Capitalism
Woodchaz · @Woodchaz
363 followers · 2939 posts · Server social.vivaldi.nethttps://lateboomersden.blog/2023/08/10/the-rapture-machine/
This was an important one for me. About a dream that changed my life. I've been this off for ages wanting to get it just right, but I need to get it out of my system. Crazy how I only just discovered Ginsberg's poem Moloch.
#Culture, #Politics, #Religion, #Technology, #AI, #ArtificialIntelligence, #Baptist, #capitalism, #Christianity, #church, #Dreams, #PinkFloyd, #Poor MansPoison, #Premonitions, #Rapture, #ReligiousRight, #Ren, #Spirituality, #TheMachine, #U2
#culture #politics #religion #technology #ai #artificialintelligence #baptist #capitalism #christianity #church #dreams #pinkfloyd #poor #premonitions #rapture #religiousright #ren #spirituality #themachine #u2