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Depends on what you mean by coping. I was poor, I managed to escape it. The brain effects studied, in my experience, aren't a life sentence fundamentally destro

Depends on what you mean by coping. I was poor, I managed to escape it. The brain effects studied, in my experience, aren't a life sentence fundamentally destroying your ability to survive and be happy. It's absolutely relative, having a $60K a year salary is going to be much better than $30K inconsistent. But it's not like you can't carve out a fulfilling existence with limited resources. I believe that's a way more damaging belief about the poor than the (wrong) belief that the poor are only poor because they are inherently incapable of being rich. Which is how I see people interpreting those recent research results.

TheOtherHobbes 11y ago
The poor are poor at least in part because they're prevented from being rich by a combination of poor education, media distraction, and lack of access to working capital. A few individuals can always break out of the ghetto. But the ghetto is a human trash heap - the graveyard of much raw talent and potential collective prosperity. It really shouldn't exist in the first place.
drumdance 11y ago
$30k is not poor. Most definitions of poverty are $28k for a family of four.