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[โ€“] LetterboxPancake@sh.itjust.works 30 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"If you don't want to be poor, why weren't you just born into a rich family? I have no respect for your bad choices pre life!"

[โ€“] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

"Because you are poor you are unworthy*. Because you are unworthy you don't deserve support."

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And because they don't get any support, people remain poor, thereby closing the circular reasoning.