The World’s First Poor Rich Country
How Predatory Capitalism Left Americans Without Capital — Poor, Broke, and Desperate
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10 min readJun 10, 2019
America presents us with something new, gruesome, and weird in modern history: the phenomenon of a new kind of poverty. And all the problems it brings with it: despair, suicide, violence, superstition, ignorance, hatred, extremism. Yet what does “a new kind of…