That top comment… 😬
Despite absolute dollars per person spending increasing since the Reagan years, Americans remain in poverty because:
Raising health care costs
Very little poverty spending actually goes to the recipients’ pockets
Decline of union membership
Home ownership is out of reach and the rent is too damn high
Banking is expensive for poor people
Most of these issues can be traced back to corporate lobbying.
The moral of the story is that poverty is a policy choice.
Yes, corporatization is the reason why the US working class continues to flounder. It’s totally different than capitalism
Poverty keeps the working class in line. The implicit threat is obey or starve. The US likes to claim that Soviet Russia uses the Gulag as a threat to anyone who feels like going against the government, but they use something much worse: instead of an actual prison camp, the entire country is selectively turned into a prison camp for those who do not play by the rules of capitalism.