It’s true, the Man IS keeping us down: “The postwar America, where progressive taxation meant blue-collar folk could afford to live in the same neighborhood as doctors and lawyers, or where an inner-city public school teacher’s yearly salary could pay the annual tuition at an eminent private university more than twice over, is long gone.” The poverty gap is one thing, but is spiraling debt, facilitated by gross consumerism and the lust for conspicuous consumption, part of the trap? Or a trap we’ve forged for ourselves? [via Green LA Girl]
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