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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This story should help you comprehend that crowd. In their ideal world, hungry children pull themselves up by their bootstraps because being hungry motivates them to work harder. Children working to pay off their lunch debt is the pinnacle of their ideology.