TIL Blind Willie Johnson was a blues guitarist who was blinded as a boy, abused by his father, and died penniless from disease after sleeping bundled in wet newspaper in a burnt down house. Carl Sagan preserved his legacy by selecting one of his songs for the Voyager Golden Record in 1977.

A poor person getting a student loan? What mythical banking system is approving those? Those frivelous purchases initiate from a lifetime of never having money or hope so wanting to trick yourself that you "matter" enough to have small luxuries too. Existing in the relentless consumerist media barrage and thinking hey I am also a person. Its also sometimes from having a complete lack of money management skills because you normally don't have additional money to manage and you learned growing up that money is a source of pain and anxiety. It's arguably a form of self medication.
We also need to realize that some of these people are simply at a different natural capability level. Humans are not all equal in capability. I am a professional but Elon Musk is apparently more motivated and probably more intelligent than I am and as a result is experiancing highly elevated life rewards. Seems like someone grew up in at least middle class family, was not exposed to the realities of poverty and is now judging others on the outcome of that epidemic. We do agree on Universal Healthcare just not for the same reasons I suppose.

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