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This is correct. It goes deeper than this, too. Capitalist economies rely on a myth of meritocracy for labor.

The end result is that we’re forced to view the homeless as lesser. We typically throw around words like addict, because we have to. If we admit that there’s homeless people out there who got so based purely on bad luck, that destroys the promise of America.



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