With Poverty, Money is Always the Answer

Zach J. Payne
4 min readJan 25, 2019

The more time that I spend on the social internet, the more I’m convinced that wealthy and middle class people don’t understand what it means to live in poverty.

In my better moments, when I’m willing to ascribe some good faith to the person in question, I don’t think it’s a failing of empathy. They are trying, as best they can, to put themselves in my shoes, and the shoes of the millions of…

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