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America’s Poverty is by Design

Some of My Best Friends Are

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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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