BigHaas [he/him]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 year agoNodding along as my coworkers criticize capitalism until someone uses the phrase carrying capacitymessage-squaremessage-square43fedilinkarrow-up1111arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up1111arrow-down1message-squareNodding along as my coworkers criticize capitalism until someone uses the phrase carrying capacityBigHaas [he/him]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square43fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareScrewdriverFactoryFactoryProvider [they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 year agoLead poisoning disproportionately affected gen x. It also still disproportionately affects poor people and people of color. So it’s probably not that.
minus-squarecosecantphi [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoMy family is definitely poor and half of us are latino, so lead poisoning of some degree is not too unlikely. But I do agree that it is probably not why they’re like this specifically.
minus-squareScrewdriverFactoryFactoryProvider [they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoYeah I worded that poorly mb
Lead poisoning disproportionately affected gen x. It also still disproportionately affects poor people and people of color. So it’s probably not that.
My family is definitely poor and half of us are latino, so lead poisoning of some degree is not too unlikely. But I do agree that it is probably not why they’re like this specifically.
Yeah I worded that poorly mb