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[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml -3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

20 percent of children in the US are food insecure and we have the largest prison industrial complex on the planet. If I had a shittier job and broke my leg I would end up homeless. My cousin who can't hold down a job due to a chronic illness would die on the streets if she didn't have family support. But yeah the system works.

[–] MoscovianSwampGuide@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sounds like a lack of compassion in your family. Just build a unit and live together, makes live easier if you support each other. But no the system is the problem! Some people would be always losers, regardless the system.

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago

What about disabled people who have no family? What about people who have family that can't support them financially? What about people who can't afford to build a unit? The system is the problem. We are more insulated from it then most.