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ENOUGH WITH THE PROTEIN MARKETING! PROTEIN POPCORN THIS PROTEIN WATER THAT NOT EVERYTHING NEEDS 50G OF PROTEIN OK. WHERE IS THE FIBER. WHERE IS IT. WHERE IS IT?????

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My family and I, like thousands of families here, no longer count our days by calendar, but by the number of friends we have lost, and by the number of times we have miraculously escaped death. We live in tents that offer no protection from the cold or solace from our pain. We sleep on the bare ground, wrapped in worry, and subsist on scraps of bread and a few legumes that are detrimental to our health.

the problem is not "gigantic corporations" it is not "late capitalism" it is not "corporate interests" it is not "big business"

Jotaro: You know gramps, I love hearing you tell me about how you beat the Pillar Men. But something confuses me. You mentioned you met a cyborg. Who exactly was he?

sure. people in other countries do get their paychecks in their local currency, which is in fact the source of this inequality -- for multiple reasons that all boil down to 'usamerican imperial hegemony', the dollar is the primary accepted currency of international trade. for some commodities, like oil, it is for all intents and purposes the only accepted currency of international trade. that means that imported items and items produced for export across the third world are priced primarily in dollar terms, and will see their prices fluctuate with the value of the dollar. this can cause the prices of goods to spiral completely out of control as the dollar that controls the underlying logic of commodities pricing changes in value relative to the local currency most people are receiving wages in. acquiring dollars themselves, of course, can only be done with steep exchange rates at prices many people can't afford.

This simply isn't the case for people in poverty and food insecurity, whose paychecks below a living wage would solely be used for the necessities of life which have high costs matching the high value of the dollar. Like, yeah, maybe the $540 a week a 7/11 worker makes (10 hrs, 6 days a week, $9/hr to assume) is comfortable within Mexico's cost of living, but in the US that's not enough to survive in most cities. Maybe you have a bigger market with a wider variety of goods available, but ur not spending ur $2000 a month on that, ur spending it on survival.

right, but usamericans living with poverty and food insecurity can still have the basic assurance that the dollars they are paid in will be useful to buy food when they go to the grocery store. the point is not just 'dollars are worth more than other currencies' but 'dollars are stable, can reliably be used to purchase things, and imported and export-bound goods are both priced in dollars'. usamericans earning poverty wages and being brutalized by capitalism don't have to worry about finding ways to convert those wages into a currency that won't be worthless tomorrow. that doesn't mean they're not being brutalized by domestic capitalism, it just means that they're not suffering the effects of imperialism.

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