Wonderful perspective. Now, let’s compare that to the white population in poverty during the same time span.

• Can all key differences be attributed to money? The acts of violence and unethical experiments were the result of being seen as property, as you said, which someone in poverty would not have to deal with by default. We can’t ignore the non-economical impacts of slavery.

• What percentage of white and black children from impoverished homes went on to get an education or move to a different area? This comparison eliminates the bias from technological advances. If that number is greater than 0, then it proves people in poverty have the oppurtunity for growth, which is not possible under slavery.

If we want to snapshot a single moment by a single metric, yes, not having enough money to move may be comparable to not being allowed to move by your owner. But I don’t think the overall situation is close enough to say they are the functionally the same.

When slavery was abolished in the United States, all of the former slaves immediately moved to the desolately impoverished category. By the time that they died, would you say that the quality of their lives, and that of their descendants, on average, improved, stayed the same, or was worse than before?

Being physically owned is functionally different from struggling to afford your choice of housing and cuisine. I am really not sure how you would like me to elaborate the complete lack of bodily autonomy and freedom. Being provided bare necessities does not functionally negate the inability to get educated, to choose a profession, to leave a property, to not get physically abused, to be separated from your family, to be denied thr right to marry, to be sold.

yes.

It wasn’t meant as any sort of insult, more of the trope of overanalizing innocuous things.

You sound like a high school English teacher.

Or not. Fuck Target too.

You think old poor don’t have crushing credit card debt?

What if all I have in life is worthless or easily duplicated?

I don’t really understand scaling tips past a certain point. The service is generally the same whether it was a $1000 steak or a $20 steak. Unless it goes directly to the chef. Everything else is already compensated by the cost of the meal.

Is it not possible that drawing #1 evokes the most joy? What are the voting criteria?

Maybe casually ask her sometime if she needs anything? Listen when she expresses interest in a random gadget, piece of cloth, etc? Notice when she gets frustrated with a task that a tool can help with, or that you can volunteer to manage?

People usually buy gifts they would like, and its so nice she loves it still, but I’d bet she’d be extra happy with a surprise.

Nah, I’m a sedentary motherfucker.

Still gotta be a mess in there.

It’s past your bedtime Freud.

For commercial rent that nearly seems reasonable. Especially considering what they’re charging for dentistry, that’s like… 3 people without insurance? 🥲

No, no, I don’t think you understand. These already make up 20 of the ones I forgot at home. The problem isn’t not having enough bags.

First party switch games vs first party valve games then?

My 9 year old son has a speech disorder because his first year of school was spent in lockdown. Still very much in support of covid measures, but his whole cohort is being studied already.

Physically, yes. But the psychological warfare possible with the internet really hasn’t been quantified.