Putting the finger on the scales means that you’re buying things on their terms. And when you’re paying with everything you own: how can that be ethical?
Competing on an unlevel field is a common situation for rural people – but being excluded from our government’s “Equitable” policies; is like locking the gates.
“The real tragedy of these small enclaves of marginality and poverty is that people are playing a game of life that has been structured in such a way that they are required to play but prevented from winning” – Janet Fitchen, Poverty in Rural America