Here's an anecdote for you: I was on welfare. Getting cash/foodstamps.. helped me get on my feet, haircuts, toothbrush/paste, gas form my car, parking, job inte

Here's an anecdote for you: I was on welfare. Getting cash/foodstamps.. helped me get on my feet, haircuts, toothbrush/paste, gas form my car, parking, job interview shirts, gym membership for showers, and now I'm a software dev making 6 figures. Welfare saved my life. The thing about anecdotes is they're literally everything that is wrong with the world. Anecdotes prey on dumb peoples emotions. Anecdotes confirm beliefs. Anecdotes confirm stereotypes. We hang out with people who share the anecdotes that support our shared beliefs. And then we vote people into power who have the same anecdotes and we get persecution...Witch Burning was not based on science, it was based on anecdotes. My thoughts are if you're not constantly questioning your anecdotes with ACTUAL FUCKING DATA and simultaneously willing to accept that your beliefs are wrong.... well you're a primitive lizard brain person and you're a failure at evolution..tomohawk ... As a side note...it's weird with the poor we're willing to unquestionably punish the entire group based on the small few that exploit the system but with the rich we just write deceitful people as an exception..see Madoff, Lay, etc.