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    8 hours ago

    I remember in the late 80s and early 90s multiple kids were killed in the US over their shoes. Usually by people they knew.

    When the designer luxury worship culture gets so bad that kids are killing each other over attaining it… something major has to change.

    Solution is to raise minimum wage, increase social support, and raise the poorest up out of poverty. These killings are incredibly rare in the rest of the developed world.

    But thanks mostly to conservatives we know that this hasn’t happened in the US, and kids who live in borderline poverty are still killing people for their designer sneakers. The only thing that’s changed in 30 years is the brands.