From Shorpy’s, http://www.shorpy.com/node/23987 Posted on 10/27/2018 5:57:54 PM PDT by NRx
H/T Ad Orientem.
This is poverty.From Shorpy’s, http://www.shorpy.com/node/23987
And this.
This might be poverty, but it’s probably more bad choices and bad habits. Los Angeles is an expensive town. Move.
This really isn’t poverty.
Nor is this. It’s not “refugee” or “asylum” either.
I couldn’t find a photograph of a fast food worker with a neck tattoo and cell phone, but that too is not poverty.
Mankind has accomplished an amazing thing in my lifetime, and that is the practical abolition of scarcity. We can grow all the crops the world needs in that greenbelt in the middle of the U.S., and float it down via gravity to the Port of New Orleans or truck it to every corner of the country. Nobody starves to death in the U.S. absent the most consumptive mental illness or addiction.
I’m willing to be proved wrong, but I don’t think anybody starves to death on the entire planet absent a deliberate human disruption of the supply chain.
Rather than be grateful to God and humbled at our abundance, we instead are freed up for all sorts of nonsense, like gender equality, racial equality, and sexual deviancy. That’s the human condition, and has been since Genesis 11.
I’m in my 50’s which is old enough (believe it or not) to have seen people with parasitic elephantiasis. Elephantiasis is now classified as a “neglected tropical disease.” I still see people living in genuine Third World squalor in places like McIntosh County. I call it squalor not poverty, because if we wanted to we could take these peoples’ guns and shoot their pit bulls (they have both), bulldoze their shacks, and move them to clean, hygienic apartments with a guaranteed minimum income, which a lot of them already receive. Same for the schizophrenic homeless men I drive by every day on the way to work. The only reason we don’t is our powerful creed of autonomous individuality. And you know what they would do if we did these wonderful things? They’d escape to the back streets or some remote culvert or clearing to resume their free lives.
We have a poverty problem all right, but it’s the problem of the poor enjoying the vices of the Biblical rich. The recluses and vagrants aren’t really the problem. These people are the problem:
Is anybody else thinking about a world, post-Scarcity?
Are the economists? What is money at this point? There are people alive today with so much money all they can think to do with it is buy the government paper that keeps millions alive without working and a Navy floating around with nothing to do. Why do we even bother with taxes? Why can’t we sell countries like Haiti, Guyana, the Congo, and Palestine to the billionaires? One day, I bet we will.
Are the theologians? What’s the attraction of Christianity when Globohomo Corp. can reduce marginal costs to the point that we fill every belly, cure everybody’s AIDS, and preach the gospel of liberalism? What was all that stuff about “labor” and being “heavy-laden” again? Christianity in general, and Orthodoxy in particular, is the redoubt of affluent intellectuals. Present-centered people enjoying all the food, parties and sex they want have no need of it.
I’m told this is all cyclical and soft people make hard times. I guess we’ll find out.
Shorpy.com is great.
I think I check that site pretty close to daily.
Have another beer and vote republican to get rid of the beggar bastards.............................
Most whiny babys in the world cant recognize good or evil anymore.
Shorpy is a great archive of human history
We now have created something that has never been seen in all of recorded history: Our poorest are now the most likely to obese. Besides being the most over-fed poor people ever, our poor people are also the most entertained poor people in history.
It’s hard for me to imagine any sort of sustained civil unrest while these conditions persist.
Freegards
Shorpy is a wonderful historical project.
The funny thing is even the old pictures are composed for political purposes.
I like the candid polaroid’s and stuff where people say, does anyone know where this was?
And someone fills in the backstory. Shorpy is a GREAT project.
Lots of gaps in my history. no pics, no cameras
Mary my pic tonight VFW post 4011 LOL!
I wasn’t wearing a costume or anything, I guess she just thought well, he is kinda skerry in an odd way...
You gotta see folks through the filter of your life, I am a gentle soul, but folks piss me off.
You MS 13 guys? No we aint having any.
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If everyone was as well off as the average member of my country club there would not be a Democrat elected to anything. Rats must have poverty to survive (and victems)
We live in a world where the poor are fat and the rich are skinny
We have a poverty of morality. This is more true than anything else.
Thanks. Good site I’d never heard of.
Bam!
And they weren’t criminal predators....2-4 generations ago where my DNA comes from and has been here since Jamestown and before tks to the War of Northern Aggression ans especially Reconstruction folks we’re poor as hell and they didn’t rob and steal and were kind to strangers unless pushed ....I am old enough to recall poor kin with no plumbing or electricity
I spent weekends with my great grandma in the Piney Woods....just like that ...when she died in 1965 she left a few 1000 in savings and a four room shotgun non insulated wood heated home
Well and cistern water and outhouse outback
Tobacco and cows and chickens and cotton on 120 acres....she died at 90....her daddy fought under Van Dorn
Predatory behavior would not have been brooked and the community might have lynched you....yes they lynched whites too
They are fat because they lack discipline and drive
Same behavior makes them poor
"The proletarians will never revolt, not in a thousand years or a million."
- O'Brian in "1984."
Regards,
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