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There's still good in this world (i.imgflip.com)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/orphancrushing@lemmy.world
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[–] 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Why vis lunch so contentious in the US? Why do people have lunch debt?

We have poor people in other countries too. They don't get free lunches, but it doesn't seem to be such a contentious issue.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    For 99% of the questions of "Why does it work like that in the US?" the answer is "racism". But this one has a nice overlap with the dominant US religion, which teaches its followers that being poor is a sin and poor people should be punished. Yes, even if you're a child.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    Racism or religion doesn't really explain this? Or maybe it does but I'm missing the connection.

    In Australia 90% of kids brought a sandwich to eat, from home. Some kids were given some money to order lunch from a cafeteria occasionally, but no one did that every day. We probably got to do that 5 or 6 times in 10 years.

    If you didn't have money it was not possible to borrow or accrue a debt.

    We don't let kids go hungry either, but there are other machanisms to resolve that.

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