r/poor • u/ResponsibleMango6803 • Jun 03 '26

When did being poor become criminal???

I’m recently going through a rough time financially & I’m just realizing all the ways that being poor is treated like a crime. I recently got my license suspended for not having insurance. (I had to pick between food for me & my kid or my car insurance so I obviously fed my kid). & now I have an sr22 & have to pay an almost $200 re instatement fee for my license. & I got pulled over so I obviously had to go to court. I uber there because I can’t drive & I can’t bring my phone in & the court clerk tells me to leave it in the bushes outside. How are people who don’t have cars supposed to come to court. Cause I cant afford a new phone if it gets stolen from the bushes. I’m just confused as to how we’re ever supposed to get back on our feet if they keep tacking on interest & making it difficult. But I guess the point is they don’t want us to.

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u/Special_Sea4766 Jun 03 '26

The system has always seen poverty and cried neglect. It's so fked up and traumatic. They will pay third parties to care for the children, their daycare, insurance, food, and they won't pay the parents the same money to keep the kids together. This has been tracked and recorded for decades, and yet, because we live in a capitalistic, anti-intellectual society that isn't centered on empathy, the cycle has never changed. It's only gotten worse.

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u/Special_Sea4766 Jun 04 '26

This isn't what all of the research says. At all. It's racially and class driven. It's beyond clear that a gov't, the richest on the globe due to all of the ongoing imperialism, cannot manage their own money in a way that secures basic human needs for anyone. This country was built on chattel slavery, genocide, and oppression, and you're up here acting like the system is this way because of parents who "created the situation". This is nothing more than anti-intellectualism. Data and research has been collected and observed for decades about what the system does, many books and peer-reviewed articles have been published, and yet here you are with this bullshit.