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The author was poor because the author chose to get a degree in English lit and rather than getting a full time job in Starbucks she chose to get an internship.
by notyourday 9y ago
The author was poor because the author chose to get a degree in English lit and rather than getting a full time job in Starbucks she chose to get an internship. Her experience demonstrates that it is largely a choice.
Experience of truly poor people is also largely a choice. I used to be very poor. It is called "crap happens". And it was a choice during those years to put one's head down and do it over again and again and again and again regardless of how helpless it felt.
The biggest issue that poor people have is misallocation of time. They have a crapload of time and very little money. Unfortunately, instead of leveraging their time, they try to leverage the money the way those who are not poor do. That's a mistake.
- AstralStorm 9y agoHow do you leverage time when already working multiple jobs to make ends meet? Sounds like you've never even met actually poor people. Most of them actually do work back-breaking hours or are completely incapable of most work for health or age reasons.
- notyourday 9y agoThe reason why they are working those back to back jobs is because they do not leverage their time and instead trade it for money at a terrible rate. For someone who is poor figuring out where it is possible to buy groceries for pennies on a dollar using coupons is more important than making extra twenty dollars a day. By spending 10 hours a month finding the right coupons and advertisements to save $300/mo on products he or she buys a poor person achieves a rate of $30/dollars an hour after taxes. That's how one gets out of poverty, not by taking another back breaking job to get effective rate of $4/hour.