That is the strange part … she grew up in the 50/60s in northern Ontario from an immigrant Italian family. They had enough to get by in their childhood but they were on edge of being poor … like everyone else in northern mining/forestry towns back then.
They were part of the post war boom years where everyone had a chance and the rich were held down with enough taxes to fund everything the government did to build a more equitable country.
They got theirs because they thought that it was all done just through their effort and goodness alone and never acknowledging that it was more social government that made it all possible. Now that all those government supports and checks and balances on the rich are removed, no one has a chance and these old boomers still believe that it’s all up to individual effort to get by in life.
They had enough to get by in their childhood but they were on edge of being poor
Honestly, sometimes people in that situation can come out of it with the most infuriating “well, we made it, other people must just be lazy” understanding.
It’s cause she doesn’t have the slightest notion of what it’s actually like being poor.
That is the strange part … she grew up in the 50/60s in northern Ontario from an immigrant Italian family. They had enough to get by in their childhood but they were on edge of being poor … like everyone else in northern mining/forestry towns back then.
They were part of the post war boom years where everyone had a chance and the rich were held down with enough taxes to fund everything the government did to build a more equitable country.
They got theirs because they thought that it was all done just through their effort and goodness alone and never acknowledging that it was more social government that made it all possible. Now that all those government supports and checks and balances on the rich are removed, no one has a chance and these old boomers still believe that it’s all up to individual effort to get by in life.
Honestly, sometimes people in that situation can come out of it with the most infuriating “well, we made it, other people must just be lazy” understanding.
Frightening to think of a teacher with such a callus attitude towards children