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America’s Poverty is by Design

Some of My Best Friends Are

CHAPTER

The Importance of Taking Care of the Poor

We pretend as if the system isn't by definition dependent on those people. And so you spend a lot of time in this book actually talking about like, since we know we need people to do these jobs, we ought to care enough about them to have a decent quality of life that we should not be exploiting them through our labor systems and housing markets. "For me, it's just like, look, I mean, we've all been exploited," he says.

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