U.S. Jobs Shape Condoms’ Role in Foreign Aid - New York Times: "One, Garry Appling, a 41-year-old single mother, has worked before as a $6-an-hour cashier at Krystal, the fast food restaurant, and another at $7.15 an hour in a chicken processing plant. She said her 10-year-old daughter, Anterria, worries that she will have to go back to the chicken plant, a place so cold and wet Ms. Appling often fell ill.
But even facing her own impending job loss, Ms. Appling took a moment to empathize with the women making condoms on the other side of the world.
“We need a job — I guess they do, too,” she said, during a brief pause from feeding condoms into an intricate, rotating, whooshing machine that tested them for holes. “It’s sad.
“At the same time, the United States can’t just keep helping overseas. They’ve got to help us, too.”"
Its Nature's law that when you are at the lower end of the scale, smaller stimuli can affect huge changes. A capitalistic society like the American one has an almost exponential distribution of wealth. That is, as you move up the social ladder you have rate of accumulation of wealth continually grows.
The other role of capitalism seems to be, levelling the floor on which people around the world compete. This affects the poor in the US to a much more significant level than it does the relatively well-off sections of society. They have less opportunity (less pre-adapted) and more need to adapt. (I learnt a new term called pre-adaptation, which is essentially how well suited you are to adapt. For example having some air bags when you were a fish which could evolve into lungs as you adapt to conditions on land. This is proposed as a model for predicting the future economic/financial situations).
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