Poverty is a Feature, Not a Bug

Poverty is as much apart of capitalism as it extreme wealth inequality. When a system doesn’t value certain people or their work, regardless of what it might be, then poverty is the sad result of the situation. In the US this can be a function of both class and race (often at the same time) and its simply apart of our economic model, especially the post-industrial economic models where the concentration of capital has been an important part of making an economy go. In this video, we see how the forces of economic change can render whole sectors of society poor through no fault of their own. Being poor is not a character flaw: it is a matter of cash flow.