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Hey, maybe poor people don't deserve to starve? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[โ€“] RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I really wouldn't mind the whole rhetoric of pulling yourself by the bootstraps if it wasn't rigged. The system is literally made to make ppl fail.

[โ€“] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago

There's also the fact that it originated as an expression meaning "doing something impossible" since pulling on your own bootstraps would PREVENT you from getting up.