• dev_null@lemmy.ml
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    Because if a poor person living in the projects dies of starvation? Oh, that’s fine. That’s a feature, not a bug.

    What’s “the projects” in this context? I’m not a native English speaker and have seen this used in similar contexts but I don’t know what it means. Translation fails me, I know what the word means but it clearly has some different usage here.

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      “The Projects” is a term used to describe government provided (or subsidized) housing for poor people. The term is generally used to indicate “a place in a city where income is low and crime is usually high”.

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      In UKese it’s “council estate “