When wealth is passed off as merit, bad luck is seen as bad character.

This is how ideologues justify punishing the sick and the poor.

But poverty is neither a crime nor a character flaw. Stigmatize those who let people die, not those who struggle to live.

(Sarah Kendzior)

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Miram · 31-35, F

I like this and it is my first time reading it.

Skills matter but it is mostly luck that enables people to access opportunities and experiences others can't.

I have been lucky.

There are of course exceptions. Humans do choose comfort and sometimes familiar suffering is more comfortable. And they coerce others to experience the same. The victims can be oppressors themselves. It is not just those in power. It is everyone falling short.