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Hey, maybe poor people don't deserve to starve? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[โ€“] RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I really wouldn't mind the whole rhetoric of pulling yourself by the bootstraps if it wasn't rigged. The system is literally made to make ppl fail.

[โ€“] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 23 points 9 months ago

There's also the fact that it originated as an expression meaning "doing something impossible" since pulling on your own bootstraps would PREVENT you from getting up.