How can poor white people exist when the system was made to benefit them?

[Suburbia]

How can poor white Americans exist?
How can poor white Canadians exist?
How can poor white Britons exist?
How can poor white South Africans exist?

When the system was made to benefit them?

A lot of people say that, like comedian and commentator D.L. Hughley, etc.

[junior chįmp]

This thread is your magnum opus BRONZ

[FT-02 Senator A.F.E. 🇵🇸🤝🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦]

Inb4 the flame-war between Big Abraham and some other red avies

This is a Bronz threaf

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

A lot of people say that, like comedian and commentator D.L. Hughley, etc.

literally who

[AGA]

Bronz threads have been on fire lately.

[Medal506]

White people are so privileged, everyone is running from being categorized as White

[Big Abraham]

Because it wasn't. It was designed to benefit capital.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Because it wasn't. It was designed to benefit capital.

Indeed, "race", as such, was designed to benefit the embryonic version of capital with which people during the Age of Exploration were familiar.

[Hindsight was 2020]

This isn’t b8. This is art *chefs kiss*

[Suburbia]

A lot of people say that, like comedian and commentator D.L. Hughley, etc.

literally who

https://www.instagram.com/realdlhughley/?hl=en

One of the best comedians of all time.

[VBM]

Let’s see how long it takes before someone takes this bronz thread seriously

[Pericles]

Racism doesn't mean that every white person is certain to do better than black people, and indeed because it's only one part of someone's experience, there are plenty of black people that start out life with better opportunities than some white people. However, racism-even when it's just subconscious-means black people often don't start out with the same opportunities in life as white people and throughout their lives are still at a disadvantage. It's not impossible for anyone to overcome, but life isn't as fair as it should be either. This likely contributes to the fact that although around 10% of white children live in poverty in the US, around 30% of black children do.

[parochial boy]

Basically what Big Abraham and Nathan said. But even then, even in Apartheid South Africa, a system very explicitely and openly designed to priviledge whites, there were still a surprising number of white people living surprisingly precarious existences.

That's the nature of capitalism you see, it creates hierarchies and concentrates power. And a skilled political operator can ensure such a system continues convincing the right class of people that they can only lose from anything that changes.

[Suburbia]

Basically what Big Abraham and Nathan said. But even then, even in Apartheid South Africa, a system very explicitely and openly designed to priviledge whites, there were still a surprising number of white people living surprisingly precarious existences.

That's the nature of capitalism you see, it creates hierarchies and concentrates power. And a skilled political operator can ensure such a system continues convincing the right class of people that they can only lose from anything that changes.

How is socialism the alternative?

[beaver2.0]

As others have said, the system was made to benefit rich people (who are often white)