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“”I want to be part of a system in which wealth means having enough to share,” Kimmerer writes, “and where the gratification of meeting your family needs is not poisoned by destroying that possibility for someone else””..."Why do we continue to accept scarcity as given, treating it as the
central organizing principle of our economics, policymaking, city
planning, and personal ethics?" (Page 154).
— May 24, 2026 01:13PM
central organizing principle of our economics, policymaking, city
planning, and personal ethics?" (Page 154).
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"We need not be debt collectors or private prison wardens to play a role in producing poverty in America. We need only to vote yes on policies that lead to private opulence and public squalor and, with that opulence, build a life behind a wall that we tend and maintain."
— May 11, 2026 03:32PM
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"Poverty is embarrassing, shame inducing. You may begin to believe, in the quieter moments, the lies told about you. You avoid public places—parks, beaches, shopping districts, sporting arenas—knowing they weren’t built for you. Poverty might consume your life, but it’s rarely embraced as an identity. It’s more socially acceptable today to disclose a mental illness than to tell someone you’re broke. "
— Apr 03, 2026 03:33PM
