Poverty and the "Dead, Straight, White Guy" Syndrome

Think about poverty. Poverty is everywhere and has likely existed since the beginning of human history, however the poverty we see today has direct correlations to European history from the past 600 years.  This is the history of colonialism.

There are two basic human failings that were (and still are) behind colonialism:

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