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user-inactivated · 2975 days ago · link · · parent · post: Everyone in America is More Broke Than You Think - What About You, Hubski?
Money comes with influence. If you're middle class you can go to your senator's favorite bar, act and dress like you belong there, and have a conversation with him without the mediation of staffers and in a context where he's kindly disposed. If that's not your scene you'll need to be a little manipulative and burn a thousand bucks or so on the right clothes and haircut, but it's not out of reach for a lot of us. If you're rich you make big campaign donations to several congresscritters, and you don't have to be subtle. If you're poor you don't have either option.I continue to struggle to understand the attention given to relative measures of well-being compared to absolute measures of well-being.