It is. Another problem we have is time and setting. Just saying poverty leaves the door open to every civilization that ever had a monetary system. Then inside that we have billions of individuals.

I have a feeling you’re thinking like you did when I took apart your time travel vs space travel question. You’re thinking ffs you know what I mean just work with me here. But I’m thinking feudalism, slavery, victims of famine, failed revolutions, unfair banking practices, capitalism vs communism, IMF debt, IMF bailouts, American slums, modern day India, credit card debt, student loans, expensive health problems, and on and on.

You poopooed the first thing I said as a persnickety point over semantics but I was opening the conversation with a point about how the haves dictate the language we use to justify the exploitation of the poor.

Anyway, if you’re looking for universal patterns, where there’s money you’re very likely to find people who are able to hoard it and others who suffer from being on the other side. It’s also very likely that money is power and power means more money but the degree to which the cards are stacked against the poor vary from situation to situation. A dude in Ireland might have a bad hand but a kid in Ethiopia was probably never even allowed to know there’s such a thing as a hand.

Damn

Nice link

To say the least

Libgen is so boss that it's already been shut down and it didn't take (since its servers are Russian and American fascists can't dig out the roots). Its main use is generally free digital text books and academic articles so that college students don't have to mortgage their souls for pieces of paper wrapped in cardboard, but it's got just about everything printed. If I can't find collections of comic books on my other piracy sites I go to Libgen and download them issue by issue cause it's got ****ing everything.

It actually works on my iPhone. I just downloaded a free book and started reading just now.

It's not the only book piracy site I know but it's definitely the premier one by a 100 miles. If it can be put on the internet there is an entire web of thievery sites dedicated to it.

It really chaps my ass when you look something up and they’ll only give you the abstract.

I’m like really. I’m pretty sure that I’m the only one on earth who just wants to read this. Not for a grade. Not because I’m on the dissertation team. I’m just ****ing interested but you’re going to keep it hidden up your ass instead. **** them.

What if you sell the poor timeshares?

That was actually also the first thing that came to my mind when I saw that quote. :laughing:

This. All caps and shouted at passersby in front of Walmart.