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Repeated actual peer reviews studies are showing the same thing namely that poor people are poor not because of their moral failing but because they don't have
by JupiterMoon 11y ago
Repeated actual peer reviews studies are showing the same thing namely that poor people are poor not because of their moral failing but because they don't have any money.
So you argue that instead of actually using the results of research we should focus our welfare using understanding based upon 19th century moralizations.
- aianus 11y ago> poor people are poor not because of their moral failing but because they don't have any money. My parents put together made less than $4,000 a year when I was born. Yet, today they are not poor and neither am I. Nobody gave them any free money, why wouldn't I be skeptical of these studies?
- mikeash 11y agoWhy would you assume you're representative?
- cookiecaper 11y agoWhy would you assume he isn't?
- JupiterMoon 11y agoBecause most people that start life poor end life poor and most people that start life rich end life rich.
- mikeash 11y agoI'm not assuming either way.
- JupiterMoon 11y agoYour parents were lucky. They are probably also hard working and intelligent but unless they were lucky they could not have escaped from the poverty you describe (unless you're missing some details like having helpful rich friends or family etc). It's too easy for something to go wrong e.g. an illness or injury, a car accident, a broken appliance or two and your knocked back down again and if you have no money and no income you can't recover.
- aianus 11y agoThey didn't even have a car or appliance to break... My parents were poor because they were born in a shitty country with a shitty economic system and there wasn't anything they could do except leave. That's bad luck. If you're born healthy in the US you start with opportunity and have to actively fuck it up.
- JupiterMoon 11y ago> My parents were poor because they were born in a shitty country with a shitty economic system and there wasn't anything they could do except leave. That's bad luck. Ahh so $4000 had rather more purchasing power than in the US then. I wondered about a salary that low.