On the surface this is a story about trailer parks and the rich profiting from captive renters, but I think the bigger story is this:
"He quotes US government statistics showing that in 2013, 39% of Americans earned less than $20,000 – less than the government’s poverty threshold income of $20,090 for a three-person household."
39% means (Edit: 48,000,000 not 125,162,700, thanks @beachstartup) Americans are living below the poverty line! When you don't have options then you will be taken advantage of.
Our system is failing us, our government is failing us, our fellow Americans are failing us and we the community of Hacker News are failing us.
How do we disrupt poverty (in the USA and globally), disrupt failing governments and disrupt failing communities?
It seems as if our biggest downfall as humans is we don't see how what we do as individuals impacts everyone else and we are all dying deaths of 1b stings. "my carbon doesn't matter", "my investments don't matter", "my food doesn't matter", "my lifestyle doesn't matter", "my impact is so finite", "I'm just one person", etc.
"He quotes US government statistics showing that in 2013, 39% of Americans earned less than $20,000 – less than the government’s poverty threshold income of $20,090 for a three-person household."
39% means (Edit: 48,000,000 not 125,162,700, thanks @beachstartup) Americans are living below the poverty line! When you don't have options then you will be taken advantage of.
Our system is failing us, our government is failing us, our fellow Americans are failing us and we the community of Hacker News are failing us.
How do we disrupt poverty (in the USA and globally), disrupt failing governments and disrupt failing communities?
It seems as if our biggest downfall as humans is we don't see how what we do as individuals impacts everyone else and we are all dying deaths of 1b stings. "my carbon doesn't matter", "my investments don't matter", "my food doesn't matter", "my lifestyle doesn't matter", "my impact is so finite", "I'm just one person", etc.