Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.

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“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
-Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

"The price of good men pay for indifference to public affairs to is to be ruled by evil men." — Plato⁣