This Is Why You're Poor

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We've all heard poverty described as a "mindset" or a "moral failing," but those claims don't hold up to scrutiny when you start to look into it. In this episode we'll take a look at the real causes of poverty, and why it persists in capitalist economies.

This Is Why You're Poor – Second Thought
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Citations and Further Reading:

SOURCES
Hakim’s video
   • This Poverty Graph Is Lying To You  

My video on meritocracy
   • The Myth Of Upward Mobility  

My video on recessions
   • The Truth About Recessions  

My video on Elon Musk (collab w/ More Perfect Union)
   • How Elon Musk Got Rich: The $230 Billion M...  

Poverty and recessions
https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Ce...

Ten wealthiest men doubling their wealth during the pandemic
https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releas...

23% of workers work in low paying jobs
https://data.oecd.org/earnwage/wage-l...

Over 400,000 Americans work two full-time jobs. And nearly 8 million Americans have two or more job positions
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2...

Over 7 million Americans are working part-time involuntarily
https://money.cnn.com/2014/11/20/news...

Low wage work characteristics
https://poverty.ucdavis.edu/sites/mai...

Rent unaffordability
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/14/full-... https://www.congress.gov/116/meeting/...

The cost of fuel and utilities
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/09/ma...

The cost of healthcare
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/09/ameri...

Dr. Devon Price on laziness in the office
   • Author, "Laziness Does Not Exist"  

The history of laziness
  / the-racist-exploitative-history-of-laziness  

Why Americans Hate Welfare
https://www.degruyter.com/document/is...

Reserve army of labor explained
https://jacobin.com/2023/03/karl-marx... https://jacobin.com/2016/12/full-empl...
https://jacobin.com/2021/02/laziness-...

More on laziness, hard work, and poverty
  / 5-insights-for-resisting-the-laziness-lie   \  / laziness-does-not-exist      • Hard work is a grift.  
   • Why Being Delusional is a Superpower  
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/cgi/vi...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentis...


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