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People in the US can be poor due to bad luck or chance. One serious illness can bankrupt even an upper middle-class family. The difference that my Indian coll
by wavefunction 11y ago
People in the US can be poor due to bad luck or chance. One serious illness can bankrupt even an upper middle-class family.
The difference that my Indian colleagues have mentioned to me between India and the US is that people get second (and third, and fourth, etc.) chances. Your fortunes may wane but it isn't necessarily permanent.
- yummyfajitas 11y agoBankruptcy has nothing to do with poverty. Poverty is income below a certain threshold, bankruptcy is a legal status that wipes away debts. In any case you seem to be arguing against a claim that no one in the US is poor due to bad luck, which isn't a claim I made. Consider "Bob" from this article. In the US Bob got lazy in high school and is now a barista. Over here Babu could easily get stuck in rural poverty even if he doesn't get lazy. Unlucky Babu, not lazy Bob, is the person you want to recruit.