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"100 years? Of progressive policies " |
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Message Replied To ========== Long, but good read on contemporary social problems in the US Appalachia, specifically, but the point is applicable elsewhere. The money quote : "It’s a blow that hit many central Appalachian counties a decade ago, the grim conclusion of the great cynical experiment played out upon its people. Americans, like central Appalachians, are told that problems of health and poverty stem from the moral failings of individuals, not of society. Meanwhile, their country’s institutions are embracing the same ideology that laid waste to the coalfields—that profit equals prosperity, regardless of its true costs." ==============================The previous 100 years of more "capitalist" policies lifted more people out of poverty than any other period . . . Yet during the rise of the most progressive time in US history it's capitalism's fault. Right. |


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