A bit off topic, but it's interesting that Fox News and CNN hosts' main complaints about the supply chain crisis right now is that they can't get their holiday gifts in time. People can't buy food (and when they can't, its grossly overpriced) and these people are so disconnected from reality that they're complaining on live TV that this crisis has destroyed their holidays.
Then you must know Kentucky James, a happy redneck by day and a tortured artist by night.
If he's in Kentucky, I can understand the tortured part well.
To me though it sounds like there are other factors that would play a much bigger role. Poorer people get access to worse education. They have to go to work early to make money and can't be picky on what job they take. Which in a sense another aspect of what you're saying, just... Less subjective and more of an objective disadvantage I guess.
Poorer folk
do get access to far worse education, and there are surveys and research into how poorly those kids are treated in school. There are assumptions about them by the teachers that results in their educational hindrance, such as they are "lazy" if they don't understand because they simply can't be having a hard time understanding, they are
always just a problem. Then they get singled out and start to act out because they're viewed as garbage even there and they know they are headed down the same route their poor fathers and mothers have lived for generations.
There are schools in the state of Pennsylvania that are about to crumble to the floor, and the major demographic there are poor people, with most of them being people of color. Low educational results because of it obviously, because since these kids are poor and the neighborhood is poor, there's no care to teach the kids because what value could they grant the state or country? Better to turn that effort and funding towards the nicer folk. Then the kids will turn to crime and drugs, or drop out and then turn to them, or just drop out and become homeless or constantly look for min wage jobs. That isn't even to discuss the results of the poor family itself directly impacting education. If a parent can't pay for new school supplies, clothes etc etc, it starts to negatively influence the child's education too.
The divide between the rich and the poor's education is a terrible look into the U.S. I know that during the Trump Admin, they tried to hide how the divide worsened significantly since the last recession. If I remember right, it's at the highest it has been in fifteen years. The divide just worsens and worsens every year. And until it changes—and it won't, because poor folk are not worth consideration—nothing is going to change for
anyone in these circumstances. There's just too much going on to keep poorer folk down than there is to help them.
Raising the min wage is a start but it won't solve anything in the long run. Poor folk will still be stuck in the same rut, only they get a bit more in a time where living costs increase by the year. What would help is to fix our educational system to close the divide and put out effort to help people struggling, such as granting them help with finding and maintaining a job (maybe help them with car rentals or give them a used car), help children more with assistance such as free lunch at school, governmental assistance for clothing or school supplies etc etc. It would also be beneficial to everyone if attending college didn't put you into extreme debt (overpriced so professors etc get to live life phat). All of this is unlikely to happen though, because "socialist" programs or efforts are considered evil by half of the country, and the other half uses the lie and promise of a better future to get in power only to show they are exactly the same as the opposite.
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