Hesed Ojieh argues poverty is engineered, not accidental. Certain zip codes are designed to extract wealth from low-income residents through overpriced stores, predatory credit providers, and exploitative businesses that funnel money upward to the wealthy.
You live in a neighborhood that has 3 of these, it is clear and it's a clear sign that that area was designed for people to extract from you. Poverty is an economic engine. Do you know that? It's not failure. Poverty is not failure. Poverty is not luck. Poverty is a system, is a matrix system, is an economic system, is an engine. Poverty zones, zip codes, areas are designed to circulate money upward. It takes from the poor and it gives to the rich. That's what poverty zip codes and places were built. It was designed. It was designed. It's not just that people moved out. Oh no, it was designed that way. Poverty is an economic engine. In the area in which you live, if you have any of these 3 stores, goods are going to be overpriced. The credit will be— credit, they will offer you credit, credit facility, you know, because they are predators. They own it. You will serve them.
