Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Liam Week 3

 The best way to help minorities and all people in poverty is to fix social "mobility". Right now, the rich keep getting richer, and the middle and lower classes are struggling. New wealth is going to the rich. Instead of overcomplicating things or blaming capitalism and race, we should focus on creating opportunities through free markets, less government interference, and more jobs. The rich elite want us to fight about race (which is irrelevant) to keep us from understanding the real problem which is a class divide.

Laws also make things worse by keeping low-income families in bad areas. Big housing rules force the poor to live close to each other and not have room for agriculture, and huge supermarket chains push out smaller stores and local foods suppliers, making food harder to access. Urban gardens are nice but don’t fix the big problems. To really help, we need to cut restrictions and support small businesses and farms so communities can grow stronger. Activism that annoys people, (like blocking traffic and spray-painting) doesn’t solve anything. Real change comes from empowering individuals, supporting small-scale farms, and improving opportunities.

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