… you interrupt your handwringing over the neologism “food deserts” just long enough to become incensed when an entrepreneur creates a food oasis.
… if, in other words, both of these make sense to you:
- If poor people are not within a reasonable distance from an affordable grocery store, it is because capitalism is heartless and doesn’t care to serve poor, underprivileged people, and we call it a “food desert.”
- If poor people are within a reasonable distance from an affordable grocery store, or if an affordable grocery store is proposed within a reasonable distance, it is because capitalism is heartless and seeks to use their poverty and limited mobility against them, and we call it “exploitation.”
