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Old Posted Apr 2, 2014, 6:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Mr Roboto View Post
Well, it comes out, which is exactly as I suspected and why I feel the need to call you out when you comment on these types of issues. You seem to have this type of fixation with clearly defining people by socioeconomic status, and then labeling them by whatever simple means you deem appropriate with total disregard for actually understanding the reasons behind it. I suppose you'd prefer permanent systems of keeping people in poverty - serfdom, or indentured servants and slavery.
I don't have an interest in fixing poverty in America. That's true.

But more importantly to me, I don't understand why poverty needs to be Chicago's job to fix. Here we are praising places like New York or San Francisco but it's not like those places fixed poverty, they just pushed it out of the way; yet black hip hop artists are singing New York City's praises all the time.

The City of Chicago should be no more morally obligated to fix poverty than Denver, CO or Beverly Hills, CA or Sioux Falls, SD, or Columbia, MO etc etc. It is not a problem that a city can fix--it is a byproduct of Capitalism.
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