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Seattle's new socialist mayor-elect could use a refresher on wealth and poverty.
“Food deserts are not natural,” said Mayor-Elect Katie Wilson recently. “Corporations create them when they abandon our communities.”
By this view of the world, cities are ecosystems where grocery stores naturally spring up on street corners, and hunger is a disease created by corporations to sell food. It is fitting that a New York-raised socialist in her 40s who still receives welfare checks from her parents believes that the natural order of things is guaranteed providence. But Wilson shouldn’t ask what creates poverty; she should ask what creates wealth.
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