Check out Polyphony Arts & Words’ August story! A story about a poor teacher, a powerful local strongman, and a single dead tree becomes a larger meditation on poverty, power, morality, politics, and the compromises of survival. Writer of the month Hiranmoy Gangopadhyay’s literary journey from the coalfields of Bengal into the contradictions of contemporary India. Would you like to submit your translated stories or poetries for publication? Language: English. Submission e-mail: [email protected] https://polyphony26.substack.com/p/crosshatch-game?r=7ak8i&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
Five Thomas Sowell Lessons the West Refuses to Learn The West has proven Thomas Sowell right: “compassionate” policies often ignore trade-offs and incentives. Sowell offers no villains—only reality. 1) **Ask the right question.** Poverty is the default; prosperity is what needs explaining. Study what creates abundance, not inequality as automatic proof of injustice. 2) **Pick your poison.** There are no perfect solutions, only costs and benefits. Every policy uses scarce resources and shifts who pays. No free lunch. 3) **Leaders need skin in the game.** It’s dangerous to grant power to people insulated from consequences. When decision-makers aren’t harmed by error, bad choices spread. 4) **Keeping what you earn isn’t greed.** Treating production as selfish and redistribution as virtue inverts morals—and concentrates power in those who control taking and giving. 5) **Judge ideas by outcomes, not vibes.** The West keeps discarding institutions that worked because their reasoning feels unfashionable. Sowell’s core point: reality ignores intentions—scarcity, incentives, and consequences still rule.
Dolly Parton, Country Music Superstar Whose Songs Spoke to Millions, Dies at 80 — Known for her outsize persona, appearance and talent, she rose from rural poverty to become a top-selling singer, songwriter and entrepreneur https://t.co/2A1bO4bT1e #DollyParton #CountryMusic #Legend #Thetweetdoesnotmentionanyspecificcountries.Therefore #therearenocountrycodestoreturn.
The Europeans are going to go broke this winter. They have just about gotten away with their wacky behavior for years. But now the chickens are coming home to roost. Stock up on firewood if you live in the EU Poverty Zone. 🇪🇺 #EU #WinterCrisis #EnergyPoverty #EU
🚨 SE ON NYT VIRALLISTA: Argentiinan oikeistopresidentti Javier Milei on puolittanut äärimmäisen köyhyyden 11 %:sta 5 %:iin ja köyhyyden 30 %:sta 17 %:iin. Hän tuhosi vasemmistososialismin ja Argentiina kukoistaa. Milei on mahtava! 🇦🇷 🫡 🇦🇷 https://t.co/RiHtRq7CjV #Argentina #Milei #PovertyReduction
Burkina Faso has recently banned the representation of beneficiaries of humanitarian aid for promotional purposes, a decision that raises questions about the motivations of the military regime in power, which is engaged in a crackdown on civil society, while addressing the phenomenon of staging poverty, known as "poverty porn." (translated)
this is the end for my country: #Italy's debt is over 3,000B euros,our public health system is collapsing,poverty is widespread,and what does the #Meloni govt do? It opts for increasing #MilitarySpending to 5%GDP and further indebting our country with the SAFEFund to buy arms https://t.co/qqimXU7caM #Italy #Meloni #MilitarySpending #IT
A brazil first lady, Janja Lula, defended her luxury travels as essential to her role, while critics label her a hypocrite and accuse her of promoting misogyny, revealing the tension between her lavish lifestyle and her husband's anti-poverty messaging amidst ongoing public scrutiny. #JanjaLula #brazilpolitika #luxusköltekezés
Poverty Is the Problem. Success Is Not. Much of modern political discourse is built on the assumption that inequality is the problem. I believe this is a profound mistake. The true enemy is not inequality—it is poverty. There is a reason the commandment “Thou shalt not covet” #Poverty #Inequality #Success #Nospecificcountriesarementionedinthetweet.
Le gouvernement burkinabé a interdit la pratique du « poverty porn », qui consiste à filmer la misère des personnes vulnérables pour susciter de l'émotion et des dons, à travers un décret visant à encadrer les interventions humanitaires dans le pays. #BurkinaFaso #PovertyPorn #AideHumanitaire
America’s ruling class has performed another miracle. They took the most basic truths in human civilization ... crime needs punishment, borders need enforcement, schools should teach, welfare should be temporary, families matter, merit matters, and taxpayers should not be looted by professional parasites ... and somehow rebranded all of that as “extremism.” Incredible work, really. Apparently, a “compassionate” society is one where the violent repeat offender gets another chance, the victim gets a candlelight vigil, the taxpayer gets the bill, the schoolkid gets passed along illiterate, the fraudster gets a grant, the NGO gets another contract, the illegal alien gets services, and the working American gets told to shut up and be more inclusive. What a beautiful system. Soft justice did not stay in the courtroom. It metastasized. It became soft borders, soft schools, soft parenting, soft welfare, soft standards, soft men, and soft bureaucrats explaining why every obvious solution is “too harsh.” Lock up predators? Cruel. Deport illegals? Hateful. End generational welfare? Lacking empathy. Punish fraud? Complicated. Restore merit? Problematic. Teach kids to read? Probably colonialism by Tuesday. A serious country protects the innocent from the guilty. A decaying country protects the guilty from consequences and makes the innocent finance the experiment. That’s America’s real crisis. Not poverty. Not “root causes.” Not another fake expert panel. Consequences. We stopped imposing them on the people destroying the country, so now the country imposes them on everyone else. https://x.com/FloppingAces/status/2071298317452234938?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2071298317452234938%7Ctwgr%5E437b8e842447602b831fedbcf5c5855b30e505ba%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Finstapundit.com%2F806889%2F
Busy Cabinet today advancing key measures: - Extending petrol & diesel excise cuts - Progressing work on tackling child poverty - Updating housing guidelines for rural and Gaeltacht areas to support young families building locally https://t.co/1mcXdDRQg2 #CabinetMeeting #ChildPoverty #HousingSupport #IE
What a surge of anti-migrant protests says about South Africa — It is too easy for xenophobic vigilantes to take advantage of poverty and a weak state https://t.co/bmIYGdXK31 #SouthAfrica #Xenophobia #AntiMigrant #ZA
