16 Year Old Me: Why Are People Poor? There’s Enough Food And Shelter For Everybody.

16 Year Old Me: Why are people poor? There’s enough food and shelter for everybody.

Conservative Parents: You’re too young to understand. Go to college.

Goes to college. Acquires bachelors in political science. Reads books and essays for a decade on structural poverty: Turns out poverty is a man-made creation structured to maintain a hierarchy of power. Vast majorities of people have little to nothing because the top of the capitalist hierarchy deploys state violence to horde wealth.

Conservative Parents: Bla bla bla, liberal commie-talk. A college degree don’t make you smarter.

Me: Liberals and communists aren’t the same thing.