• feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    No, I’m very poor. I’ve been homeless, I’ve used food banks and I literally used to run a vegetable farm, so it’s very funny you would suggest I grow food.

    • LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      So why resort to stealing now? Because you’re angry at the stores now for inflation, so you want to punish them? That’s different than being poor. Being poor doesn’t make a person automatically antisocial, immoral, or more likely to harm another and to say otherwise is propaganda or an excuse to be antisocial. If you want to harm corporations in revenge, say that and stop hiding behind tired classist propaganda.

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          3 months ago

          Okay, that can be what you attribute it to, but you’re in the minority and the vast majority of poor people, both in rich countries and globally, are pro-social and don’t steal.

          Just like you might set fires because you’re stressed, but plenty of stressed people don’t set fires. Or you might serial kill because you had a bad upbringing, yet majority of people don’t serial kill even if they had a bad childhood. In fact, most people who suffer abuse, tend to UNDO and prevent that same abuse happening to others. So if you’re poor, you tend to not want to hurt others financially either. The poor understand the actual value of a meal and a dollar.

          So whatever reason you give yourself to abuse or be antisocial, is simply an excuse and not a cause.

          And this is at the true schism of leftist rhetoric and true non-violence: when is violence acceptable? When is being antisocial acceptable? I don’t have the answers. I can understand why someone responds to violence with violence, yet I think it only makes things worse.