Kind of a false dichotomy. How about medical care as a right for a big abstract concept? He's not anti-science here, he's against the inequality of its distribution.

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rybosome 4 hours ago | parent [-]

> Kind of a false dichotomy.

That’s precisely my point. Some stanzas in the poem suggest that there’s a direct connection between the moon mission and his poverty.

> The man just upped my rent last night > cause Whitey’s on the moon

> Was all that money I made last year > For Whitey on the moon?

And my point then was that I can see and empathize with his frustration, but I don’t feel it’s a singularly correct perspective to the exclusion of the perspective that the missions were of great value.

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xoac 4 hours ago | parent [-]

But he's not blaming his poverty on "whitey on the moon" but the lack of healthcare. There is an opportunity cost to war, Moon/Mars missions etc.

	▲	rybosome 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I don’t mean to badger, but how can this stanza: > The man just upped my rent last night > cause Whitey’s on the moon Be interpreted as anything other than directly blaming his poverty on the moon mission?
	▲	JumpCrisscross 36 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> he's not blaming his poverty on "whitey on the moon" The speaker absolutely is. It’s wrong. But bullshit resentment tearing down ambition isn’t exactly new.