>I also doubt giving people money is going to be much help.

Except the research shows that this is the easiest and quickest way to alleviate poverty.

Money is practically the only thing that does help, not that people won’t find some way to reallocate that money into their own pockets in a hurry. Most poverty reduction schemes are a way for the privileged to put themselves inbetween the poor and the money on the grounds that the poor would spend all their money on drugs or something.

> Also, I find the argument against "victim blaming" silly. Whether or not your the circumstances of your life are your fault, they are your repsonsibility. Who else should be responsible for your life?

This stands out to me too. I've always told my kids that they are responsible for everything that happens to them, including by chance.

I get downvotes for that view a lot. It baffles me.

> dictum of Marx

Marx's studies show that the existence of unemployment in those not disabled was a category created when the capitalist ruling class displaced the feudal ruling class ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserve_army_of_labour ). One purpose of it is as a wedge in the "lutte" of a worker creating wealth - between the worker keeping the wealth they created in wages, or it being sent as a dividend of profit to an heir.

More importantly, Marx noted what is quite obvious, but not in the quotidian hegemonic discourse - that the idea that a mine worker is poor as he does not own the mine he creates wealth in, whereas the heir is rich, as he does own the mine the worker creates wealth in, is fetishism. The focus on ownership of objects as opposed to human relationships is fetishism. There is a relationship between the worker and the heir, there is an expropriation of the surplus labor time of the worker by the heir. This focus on various objects is fetishism. It begins to reach its zenith in the modern age with concepts like intellectual property.

So this discussion is in this context. There are those in the poverty class, and those in the class of heirs, and a professional/managerial class and a semi-skilled working class, and these classes have relations to one another. The class mindset of the various classes flows from their relationship to one another in the context of the means of production.