“The technocratic illusion is that poverty results from a shortage of expertise, whereas poverty is really about a shortage of rights. The emphasis on the problem of expertise makes the problem of rights worse. The technical problems of the poor (and the absence of technical solutions for those problems) are a symptom of poverty, not a cause of poverty.

In some ways it states the obvious, but it is an argument you rarely hear in today’s discourse on systemic racism, whether or not it exists, and why various impoverished communities remain with so few resources, opportunities, or people who rise from such conditions.

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