Good post. I was talking to a long-lost friend a while back, and she said that she'd watched a video about why poor people are poor. That cigarette, that drink, that bite of chemically-engineered food-like structures... Those offer a dopamine hit. That momentary "relief of anxiety" is what those industries are all about... It's what Convenience-Culture is all about. And it is ludicrously profitable. You spoke of the cost of poverty... but consider.. that where there is cost.. somebody is profiting.
Every part of the malaise of poverty is Engineered, because it's profitable. And it does have some "benefits".. like a world groaning under the weight of 8,000,000,000 humans... A world that could easily support that number, given the right policies... But that wouldn't be profitable, now would it?
I just made a post that.. well, it doesn't really relate to this.. but it does.
Again... good post. <3
Thanks for the response my friend :-) A cure for cancer will never make it to the market because there's too much money made on treating cancer... That's how it work, unfortunately.
I'll read your post later; thanks for giving me the heads-up! 😊