Richard Pryor explains how capitalism leads to racism, in a 1977 interview

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@anon47741163

If poverty is defined as “not having much money” you might think the solution is to make everyone have enough money so they don’t suffer.

I trust that approach a lot less than I trust the idea of eliminating the suffering so nobody , not even people with empty bank accounts has to endure it.

OTOH we have existing mechanisms for moving money around and apparently no clue how to “eliminate suffering.”

The Social Security Administration could implement a UBI tomorrow. The infrastructure is already there. Politicians just have to tell them to do it.