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How Poverty Erodes Moral Identity

I steal food sometimes and I tell myself it is for survival but I feel like I am becoming someone I do not recognize.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Survival needs are forcing the person to act against their core values, fragmenting their sense of self.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Money and physical health — poverty as health condition?”

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