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>Again, it sounds like you believe poor people cannot actually make any decisions at all What you said to yourself in your head while reading my words is immat

>Again, it sounds like you believe poor people cannot actually make any decisions at all What you said to yourself in your head while reading my words is immaterial. >> It's an amygdala based decision. >That's utterly silly. Because the limbic system does not engage if one has a job? What's utterly silly is the firmly held and unquestioning assumption that you hold that decisions made by humans under extreme pressure are always rational. Despite the evidence to the contrary. Nonetheless, I suppose it is a convenient assumption to make should one wish to engage in exploitation of the poverty stricken for profit.

vinceguidry 11y ago
> What you said to yourself in your head while reading my words is immaterial. No, it's me trying to articulate the overall impression you're giving me so that we can have a real discussion rather than just talk around each other's ideology. But you don't seem to want to do that. > Because the limbic system does not engage if one has a job? Fight-flight responses are temporary. Way more temporary than it takes to wait in line at a payday loan shop.
- crdoconnor 11y ago
  >No, it's me trying to articulate the overall impression you're giving me so that we can have a real discussion rather than just talk around each other's ideology. But you don't seem to want to do that. I'm not "talking around" your ideology. I'm highlighting the deficiencies in the assumptions that structurally underpin it (i.e. the myth of the rational investor/consumer), pointing to research that supports the disproval of that presumption. Your lack of desire to examine those wrong assumptions which your own ideology relies upon is the actual reason why we are not having a real discussion. >Fight-flight responses are temporary. Fight/flight mode is as temporary as the threat which you are responding to. Ask a soldier suffering from PTSD if it's "only ever temporary". Seriously. Do. >Way more temporary than it takes to wait in line at a payday loan shop. We've already established pretty well that your self-professed ability to analyze the psychology of poverty mainly revolves around gawping at it from a distance on the Pablo Escobar tour and maybe being short of money once or twice in your life.

vinceguidry 11y ago

> What you said to yourself in your head while reading my words is immaterial. No, it's me trying to articulate the overall impression you're giving me so that we can have a real discussion rather than just talk around each other's ideology. But you don't seem to want to do that. > Because the limbic system does not engage if one has a job? Fight-flight responses are temporary. Way more temporary than it takes to wait in line at a payday loan shop.

crdoconnor 11y ago
>No, it's me trying to articulate the overall impression you're giving me so that we can have a real discussion rather than just talk around each other's ideology. But you don't seem to want to do that. I'm not "talking around" your ideology. I'm highlighting the deficiencies in the assumptions that structurally underpin it (i.e. the myth of the rational investor/consumer), pointing to research that supports the disproval of that presumption. Your lack of desire to examine those wrong assumptions which your own ideology relies upon is the actual reason why we are not having a real discussion. >Fight-flight responses are temporary. Fight/flight mode is as temporary as the threat which you are responding to. Ask a soldier suffering from PTSD if it's "only ever temporary". Seriously. Do. >Way more temporary than it takes to wait in line at a payday loan shop. We've already established pretty well that your self-professed ability to analyze the psychology of poverty mainly revolves around gawping at it from a distance on the Pablo Escobar tour and maybe being short of money once or twice in your life.