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helping the poor

Pastor Daryl felt torn. On the one hand, he thought it was the job of the church, not the government, to care for the poor and hungry. That, to him, was "pure Christianity." When it came to Larraine, though, Pastor Daryl believed a lot of hardship was self-inflicted. "She made some stupid choices, …

—p.127 Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City Order Some Carryout (111) by Matthew Desmond
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collective denial among tenants facing eviction

[...] He thought a kind of collective denial set in among tenants facing eviction, as if they were unable to accept or imagine that one day soon, two armed sheriff's deputies would show up, order them out, and usher in a team of movers who would make it look like they had never lived there. Psychol…

—p.115 Order Some Carryout (111) by Matthew Desmond
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incarceration and black neighbourhoods

In Milwaukee's poorest black neighborhoods, eviction had become commonplace--especially for women. In those neighborhoods, 1 female renter in 17 was evicted through the court system each year, which was twice as often as men from those neighborhoods and nine times as often as women from the city's …

—p.98 Christmas in Room 400 (94) by Matthew Desmond
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human emancipation

The threat from those who oppose this line of thought is that, without "incentives", people will stop working. The worst-case scenario is that tens of thousands of people who hold jobs in finance, corporate management, and the professions (not to mention professional sports and acting) will quit th…

Against Everything: Essays Gut-Level Legislation, or, Redistribution (The Meaning of Life, Part II) (167) by Mark Greif
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charity is the vice of unequal systems

"But how can you ask other people to lower their salaries, without giving your life to charity first? Isn't it hypocrisy to call for change for everyone without turning over your own income?" Morality is not saved by any individual's efforts to do charity, a pocketful here, a handful there. Charity…

Gut-Level Legislation, or, Redistribution (The Meaning of Life, Part II) (167) by Mark Greif