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Why disaster aid inequality destroys community bonds

My neighbor got twice as much FEMA money as me for the same damage and now I cannot look at him without feeling cheated by the universe.

Zera
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Arbitrary differences in relief distribution poison relationships with resentment over perceived unfairness in shared trauma.

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