I was reading about San Francisco the other night and came across an article about efforts to clear Golden Gate Park of its homeless population, and in the course of that article a group of "anti-poverty activists" was quoted. Are there any "pro-poverty activists"? I'm not talking about people ambivalent to poverty or those nefarious "banksters". I'm asking if there is an article in a newspaper or magazine out there that identifies someone as "John Doe, pro-poverty activist"? And if there aren't pro-poverty activists, then why the hell do we need anti-poverty activists? What do they do? What I don't think they do is actually help people out of poverty. What the people in the article I read do is lobby the government to allow for a permanent and pervasive vagrant population to live in a public park indefinitely.
You know who really "acts" against poverty? Capitalists.
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