Then god seperated the state from the church
Secularization
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We're not burning witches anymore, so we are secular
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Socioeconomics/
Poverty
Economic and emotional destitute lead to a socioeconomic condition called poverty. It can be pervasive across a region or nation, endemic to particular communities or hit small groups or individuals. The reasons for each are typically systemic and depend on numerous environmental factors. Because of regional, districtional or even individual differences, poverty is a diverse, multifaceted condition that everyone experiences differently.
However, what all victims of poverty share are two things:
- Financial Destitution: The lack of financial means to meet basic needs, the inability to afford participation in culture and society, the lack of financial security for the future, and current problems right now (addictions in particular). To qualify, all must apply.
- Mental Destitution: The financial destitution must be acutely distressing and impair the individual's ability to participate in day-to-day life, cognitively and emotionally, with insufficient coping skills to manage the effects.
The latter is important, because extended poverty will gradually take a toll on the affected and push them into developing maladapted coping strategies - often shame, isolation, addiction, self-harm, financial recklessness and so on - the things stress does to you; not to mention the various health risks of chronic exposure to stressors and the reduced quality of food.
Systemic Poverty
Poverty is the result of systems at every level. Nation, community, individual. At a national level, capitalism, natural resources, poor planning or just plain fiscal dependency on other countries can enable or cause the proliferation of widespread poverty. The classic example here are large parts of Africa, which fight primarily over natural resources and is systemically exploited by wealthier nations for those resources and cheap labor, with a government being semi-complicit in that process by not making use of the (mostly) human resources present.
Communities, if they're not systemically destined into poverty (like black people in Jim Crow America, or even today for a large part), can make poverty a problem through failure proper integration, individual harmonization and the lack of providing incentive. Turkish and arabic immigrants into Germany are systemically left behind by the structure of the community, making immigrants very vulnerable to poverty.
Bezos for a year living like an amazon worker, then character arc and changing company to be nicer for workers People would love him Wouldnt be the same “If you were given the deal to live in absolute poverty like an amazon worker for a year, but at the end you become the richest man in the world, I am sure you would take that deal” Bezos wouldnt actually live like someone in poverty because poverty is a very mental process. Poverty is about worrying, the lack of a perspective, not knowing if you'll ever be able to live properly, and the fight against the increasing sense of resignation, the feeling that you should just give up