poverty button

The place on your car dash where a working button would go if you could afford a model other than the base.

Darren's Sandpiper doesn't have an AC, but it does have a poverty button.

by Durt McGurt July 1, 2024

Poverty Safari

Social media content that is filmed in fringe areas with severe structural violence, allowing the viewer to vicariously experience places like the hoods of Detroit or homeless camps of LA.

(Coined by The Elephant Graveyard in reference to Joe Rogan's X/Twitter algorithim distorting his perspective of society.

As a suburban kid from Burberry, Connecticut—watching poverty safari content of crackheads fighting in the NYC subways helps me expand my cultural understanding of my country.

by pelican soup April 28, 2025

Povertis

Xurs mannerism form of poverty usually used in destiny 2/siege setting

In a destiny 2 trials match. Yeah this kids povertis bro.

by Snorkelbubble May 15, 2025

'Poverty Crunch'

Used to describe the combination of milk and ice in a bowl to simulate cereal, usually when there is no other option available.

Man, I ran out of Apple Jacks! Guess I'll make some 'Poverty Crunch'.

You ever put ice and milk together man? I love 'Poverty Crunch'!

by Anoncuck22 March 19, 2024

Theory of Constructed Poverty

The argument that poverty is not just a lack of money but a social status and material condition that is actively produced and maintained by systems. Laws, economic policies, discriminatory practices, and spatial planning (like redlining) construct barriers that prevent groups of people from accessing wealth, trapping them in a condition defined as "poor." Poverty is less an individual failing and more the outcome of a societal blueprint that allocates deprivation.

*Example: "Her neighborhood had no grocery store, bad schools, and predatory lenders—all while being a 10-minute drive from a booming business district. The Theory of Constructed Poverty explains this: it's not an accident. Decades of zoning, disinvestment, and policing policies literally constructed that landscape of need. The poverty was built into the infrastructure, brick by bureaucratic brick."*

by Abzu Land January 31, 2026