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Hey, maybe poor people don't deserve to starve? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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[–] 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.