One of the worst things about extreme income inequality is how many people don’t see enough of other people’s circumstances. It’s too easy to dissociate from the reality of someone else’s life if you never see them and never know them. Empathy decreases and numbness takes over.

Jan 16, 2021 · 1:18 AM UTC

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Agreed! Perspective is valuable. Without empathy for Trump supporters from MSM and congress. We will never heal. Name calling and hyper partisan rhetoric only furthers division. I wish we had just one leader that had empathy for those the disagree with.
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Set up an auto-pilot system that segregates schools and neighborhoods by wealth and let human nature do the rest
Very, very true. Situation in our country
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excellent and SO important, Marianne.
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Someone told me that buses are too dirty for her to ride on. Like that's some classist speak for sure, the same reason upper class people complain that that they don't want to pay tax dollars to expand public transit, apparently only peasants ride public transit in the U.S.
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In LA, the most visible are the homeless living in tents and boxes by the freeways, under bridges, and other public places. Homelessness is a growing population. They need their own representatives on the city council.
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the media are dominated by homes of the super rich over which we are meant to drool.Nothing of families in one bedroom, small houses turned into multi occupation units, slum like accommodation let by a pllethora of rogue landlords as another glossy property supplements comes out
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Unequivocally true.
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That’s why I love being a therapist at a community mental health center. I’m exposed to a wide range of people I would otherwise never converse with, let alone be intimately connected to.
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