Sight, not skin. Circumcised chimps didn’t face discrimination.

Love is blind required more foresight than that.

In the near future, we will be able to cite the shuttering of teen vogue as a key moment, radicalizing a whole generation of budding journalists who saw truth and possibility, and to whom very little has been left to lose.

People want to read the truth, everything else is a waste of time.

You know who the real freeloaders in this country are? Not people who rely on SNAP, but corporations whose business model depends on wages so low that taxpayers have to feed their workers.

Strikingly, it’s in the nation’s richest, fastest-growing cities—places like Atlanta—where the crisis is most acute.

Poor and working-class tenants aren’t “falling” into homelessness. They’re being pushed.

The families I follow in the book are casualties not of a failing economy but a booming one.

Prefetential rapturing of my creditors!

If life expectancy drops below 65, we don’t need to worry about funding social security!

And especially education.

Simultaneously, the wealthiest people are able to buy more and more assistance to mitigate the diminished quality of goods and services. Because the system works in their favor, they’re reluctant to acknowledge its shortcomings, and instead blame individuals for their own misfortunes.

Yet, as the world is increasingly inundated with inferior tools, and fewer skilled and knowledgeable producers, it eventually becomes harder, not easier, to produce—while the demand to make more faster continues to scale up exponentially. Daily life for many becomes untenable to manage successfully.

In the race to the bottom for price, production has to keep increasing to result in a profit. Exploitation is rarely the result of a business trying to make a better quality product. It tends to result from attempts to minimize cost, labor, and time.