<story><title>Facebook’s next project: American inequality</title><url>https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/19/facebook-inequality-stanford-417093</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kevmo</author><text>We don&amp;#x27;t need more big data studies to figure out what is causing poverty or how to fix it. Poverty in America is caused by:&lt;p&gt;- real wages decreasing since 1980&lt;p&gt;- the commoditizing of labor (e.g. janitorial companies, the &amp;quot;sharing economy&amp;quot;)&lt;p&gt;- ever-decreasing investment in infrastructure&lt;p&gt;- tying wealth to real estate prices&lt;p&gt;- an educational system that leaves many young people mired in debt&lt;p&gt;- tying healthcare to employment and the price of healthcare in general. The first kills labor mobility. The second either bankrupts or kills you.&lt;p&gt;- mass incarceration destroying families and individuals&lt;p&gt;- regulatory capture allowing big businesses to beat down all the small ones&lt;p&gt;- a monoculture that tremendously decreases resiliency</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stochastic_monk</author><text>I disagree with the comment below you claiming there&amp;#x27;s no evidence to support your claims.&lt;p&gt;You don&amp;#x27;t have citations in your post, that&amp;#x27;s because it&amp;#x27;s a summary. There are huge amounts of evidence backing up your claim.&lt;p&gt;A bigger issue than the uselessness of this initiative by facebook is the empty, bald-faced PR &amp;quot;Hey, look over here!&amp;quot; distraction that they&amp;#x27;re using to cover their callous complicity in disinformation campaigns.&lt;p&gt;That bothers me more.</text></comment>
<story><title>Facebook’s next project: American inequality</title><url>https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/19/facebook-inequality-stanford-417093</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kevmo</author><text>We don&amp;#x27;t need more big data studies to figure out what is causing poverty or how to fix it. Poverty in America is caused by:&lt;p&gt;- real wages decreasing since 1980&lt;p&gt;- the commoditizing of labor (e.g. janitorial companies, the &amp;quot;sharing economy&amp;quot;)&lt;p&gt;- ever-decreasing investment in infrastructure&lt;p&gt;- tying wealth to real estate prices&lt;p&gt;- an educational system that leaves many young people mired in debt&lt;p&gt;- tying healthcare to employment and the price of healthcare in general. The first kills labor mobility. The second either bankrupts or kills you.&lt;p&gt;- mass incarceration destroying families and individuals&lt;p&gt;- regulatory capture allowing big businesses to beat down all the small ones&lt;p&gt;- a monoculture that tremendously decreases resiliency</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>harlanji</author><text>Accurate breakdown. If you looked at my life as a 14 year old, you wouldn&amp;#x27;t have been able to picture me as a 28 year old. If you looked at me as a 28 year old, you wouldn&amp;#x27;t have been able to picture me as a 33 year old. In the last 5 years I found the top of my game where people didn&amp;#x27;t want a poor person there; got knocked down and it&amp;#x27;s been interesting adjusting to being chronically impoverished with issues increasingly piling up--relatives now comparing me to my cousins who can&amp;#x27;t hold down dish washing jobs. Meanwhile the tech giants are still trying to recruit me, and I know when I start work I&amp;#x27;ll be knocked out again because, like my last several high salary jobs in the BA, I&amp;#x27;ve entered $1000s in debt with several years of poverty, causing rejection by coworkers (poor attire, untraveled). Crazy... miracle or relocation seem to be needed. I&amp;#x27;m optimistic these last years will be a hilarious memory that toughened me up (in typical ign&amp;#x27;nt American fashion, temporarily embarrassed millionaire).</text></comment>