Tom Pogson @basicbc.bsky.social · 23d If you think of an impoverished area do you think of one with burgeoning success and everyone striving to work harder? No. You see decay. You see desperation. You see businesses pulling out and crime moving in. Poverty is neither natural nor "useful".
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As Thomas Paine taught in Agrarian Justice, charity merely satisfies the "conscience, but not the heart" because even the most magnificent charities can't do enough to push back against the relentless waves of need.