Poor decision making begets more poor decisions, which ultimately could lead to living off someone else’ (mine) dime. I bet you’re college educated too, with some super-relevant and practical degree like sociology or afro-american womens studies?

And when I say privilege, I mean the privilege a lot of us get from being born – being white, having penises, growing up in neighborhoods with good schools. You don’t earn privilege, and it doesn’t come from knowing how to spend your money; quite the opposite, privilege often means you just have more money to spend to begin with.

A thought I had earlier on this subject: In America, the rich are forgiven almost any transgression, while the poor are expected to be perfect.

I think it’s mentioned in this article — if it’s not, it should be — that there are three times more unemployed people than open job opportunities in this country. So even if every single unemployed person made a perfect effort to place themselves in a job, any job, and disregarding the obvious discrimination towards e.g. the homeless or “over qualified,” we’re still left with 8,382,000 unemployed people (out of the 12,700,00 currently unemployed) who couldn’t even POSSIBLY have jobs in the current economy.

I’d hate to be the kind of person who felt that each of those nearly eight and a half million people had all done something morally wrong and therefore deserve to be destitute.