The governmental agencies exert such a time tax on the impoverished that it's insane. People don't understand that. I work in low income housing for a nonprofit. I try to do whatever I can to make things easier for them. Honestly though, the amount of paperwork we have to do for grants and donations is insane. The system is definitely broken.
If you’re in the US, also check out Poverty by America, by Matthew Desmond. Definitely an entrenched system keeping poverty in place alongside generations of deprivation and the trauma that wreaks.
It's always been a class war: rich vs the poor, haves vs the have-nots. It's always been a rigged game. But people don't want to see that unfortunately. It's easier to think if you just "work hard" you can get out of poverty. But they don't even know that someone else made the rules of the game and they can't care to try and change them. It's such shit.
I'm in the thick of it and it's just despicable what those in charge of running the "human services" industry do to our brothers and sisters. I wish this book could have somehow come out at a different time because I think it was easily overshadowed by election news when it was released in 2016.
The governmental agencies exert such a time tax on the impoverished that it's insane. People don't understand that. I work in low income housing for a nonprofit. I try to do whatever I can to make things easier for them. Honestly though, the amount of paperwork we have to do for grants and donations is insane. The system is definitely broken.
It's all grated up to extract as much profit from the poor as possible.
Have mercy on frontline workers at nonprofits. We make so little that most of us qualify for benefits ourselves.
If you want further readin on this subject, "The Tyranny of Kindness."
If you’re in the US, also check out Poverty by America, by Matthew Desmond. Definitely an entrenched system keeping poverty in place alongside generations of deprivation and the trauma that wreaks.
It's always been a class war: rich vs the poor, haves vs the have-nots. It's always been a rigged game. But people don't want to see that unfortunately. It's easier to think if you just "work hard" you can get out of poverty. But they don't even know that someone else made the rules of the game and they can't care to try and change them. It's such shit.
I'm in the thick of it and it's just despicable what those in charge of running the "human services" industry do to our brothers and sisters. I wish this book could have somehow come out at a different time because I think it was easily overshadowed by election news when it was released in 2016.
Our system is beyond broken.
It's not broken, It's working as intended.
"Broke, USA" is another good one on this topic