You can tell in the Anglo sphere societies who does the most socially valuable work by how little they get paid. The world would be absolutely fucked without nurses, farm workers or social workers, but wouldn’t miss hedge fund managers or Venture Capital partners…
![With intergenerational wealth being so low among Black Americans, do you think there is a legitimate case for reparations? Tintenfische
ICE cube: There’s a legitimate case for cut the bullshit, you know? We know it’s all about access to capital, and we’re being shut out of that access. It’s simple. Stop doing that shit and keep your reparations. What good is reparations gonna do, if you’re still gonna fuck us with the banking system? The system that we’re all slaves to. You got 13% of the people in America trying to live off 0.5% – that’s how much money flows through our neighbourhoods [a 2021 US Federal Reserve study states Black households account for 15.6% of the US population and hold 2.9% of wealth]. Of course there’s crime, because that percentage cannot live off that wealth. So, stop playing those games and we’ll solve our own problems – which nobody wants us to do, obviously.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:dbxhslamps4e7tvettok6nc5/bafkreibcu4jxab7hpj7aiz2jiwoynghl3qbw4k2f226t65etv2byywveji)