One of the most powerful things we can do to end the scourge of a mental health crisis is to end poverty. It's impossible to overestimate the role that chronic economic despair plays in pushing people into a state of crisis.

May 4, 2023 路 1:04 AM UTC

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The economic disparity is caused by the corporations YOU DEFEND! You want to end poverty, argue for the government to get out of our way and provide us opportunities and stop the handouts!
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Oh wait, are you in poverty? 馃ぃ馃ぃ
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We have unemployment at record lows and the military is begging people to join. Poverty is a choice.
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What is your proposal?
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You. Are. A. Moron.
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Pls donate all your money to poor and then come back to give talk. Till then it's hypocrisy
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Systems > goals It鈥檚 fine and good to have a goal to end poverty, but having a goal doesn鈥檛 do anything. The question is, what is the best system to reduce poverty with measurable results?
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Do you support a universal living income? A job guarantee? A transformational Green New Deal for health and jobs and environmental responsibility? Do you support an end to most of the deadly petrochemical industry, and corporations that control jobs and political decision making?
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You have that the wrong way around, but thanks for playing.
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Perhaps leaders should consider Thomas S. Szasz's thesis on "mental illness ". Contrast the Politized defensive narration of mental illness with the totally necessitated biological reactions ( homeostasis of sleep, shelter, and nutritional deprivation faced by MILLIONS OF U.S.
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