#impoverished — Public Fediverse posts

"For so long, #politics has been about #fear, about scapegoating & punishing the #impoverished & the #struggling. Now something else has reared its head. It’s called #hope."

A quotation from Oscar Wilde

Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish poet, wit, dramatist
Essay (1891-02), “The Soul of Man Under Socialism,” Fortnightly Review, Vol. 49 (ns)

More about this quote: wist.info/wilde-oscar/81828/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #oscarwilde #advice #budget #heartlessness #impoverished #insult #necessity #need #poor #poverty #spending #thrift

The fact that #BillGates can buy at least 300,000 Middle Class #homes that could be #donated to the #impoverished yet he doesn’t makes me feel sick

The fact that #BillGates can buy at least 300,000 Middle Class #homes that could be #donated to the #impoverished yet he doesn’t makes me feel sick

The fact that #BillGates can buy at least 300,000 Middle Class #homes that could be #donated to the #impoverished yet he doesn’t makes me feel sick

The fact that #BillGates can buy at least 300,000 Middle Class #homes that could be #donated to the #impoverished yet he doesn’t makes me feel sick

The fact that #BillGates can buy at least 300,000 Middle Class #homes that could be #donated to the #impoverished yet he doesn’t makes me feel sick

„Fashion Hotspot“ (2025)
Photo ©️ Dietmar Bachmann
📍Orange, France

#urbanphotography #Orange #France #Frankreich #Provence #fashion #store #impoverished #man #renovation #urban #urbanscape #UrbanExploration #streetphotography #street #streetphoto #photography #hasselblad #x2d100c #Mode #Geschäft #verarmt #Mann #Fotografie

A quotation from Franklin Roosevelt

The millions who are in want will not stand by silently forever while the things to satisfy their needs are within easy reach.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933-1945)
Speech (1932-05-22), Commencement, Oglethorpe University, Atlanta, Georgia

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/roosevelt-franklin-d…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #fdr #franklinroosevelt #franklindroosevelt #franklindelanoroosevelt #economicinjustice #impoverished #needy #poor #poverty #protest #redistribution #revolution #socialunrest #taking #unrest #want

There it’s processed into #tantalum, a heat-resistant #metal that fetches >$300 a kilogram & is in high demand by makers of mobile phones, computers, aerospace components & gas turbines.
#Rubaya produces ~15% of the world’s #coltan, all dug manually by #impoverished locals who earn a few dollars per day. Control of this mine is the biggest prize in a long-running conflict in this central #Africa nation.

#Congo #DRC #Rwanda #Kinshasa #Tutsi #HumanRights #exploitation #business #tech #geopolitics

Also made this cool chart showing how #CEO pay increases as quality decreases along with #worker #pay and #benefits

It's made with some fudged numbers, to get the idea across, but average CEO pay and Worker pay was taken from real data sets linked from the Economic Policy Institute.

It's crazy to see how much #wealth is being #extracted from the #impoverished and #middleclass by companies that are literally #poisoning our children.

Remember, part of the listeria chicken went to schools.

the #movie: [a #wealthy #capitalist sets up a #factory in the middle of a low-income #british(?)/ #american(?) #neighborhood to #exploit cheap #labor, only to fire #everybody when his #IP might be threatened; #exploits indentured #colonized #people for #free labor; "tests" an impoverished #kid by dangling thousands of #dollars in front of his face, claiming he "passed" when the kid refused to better his situation; lets four #children probably die; probably has mountains of osha #violations and is trying to #pawn off his factory onto #someone else so he doesn't have to deal with the #consequences]

the #theory: is the #impoverished bed-ridden 80-year-old #man who stands up for the aforementioned kid during the "#test" actually the real #villain of this story???? 😱🤯😏😜

In a rare foray from his country, #Kim would travel from #Pyongyang, #NorthKorea, probably by armored train, to #Vladivostok, #Russia, where he would meet w/ #Putin, the ofcls said. Kim could possibly go to #Moscow, though that is not certain.

Putin wants Kim to agree to send Russia #ArtilleryShells & #AntitankMissiles, & Kim would like Russia to provide North Korea w/advanced #technology for #satellites & #nuclear-powered #submarines…. Kim is also seeking #FoodAid for his #impoverished nation.