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> Generally speaking, aren’t poor people poor because either they don’t know how to be not poor or can’t execute being not poor? No. Generally speaking, peopl
by jellicle 9y ago
> Generally speaking, aren’t poor people poor because either they don’t know how to be not poor or can’t execute being not poor?
No. Generally speaking, people are poor because their parents were poor and because they are in a system which works to make and keep them poor.
- linkmotif 9y agoTrue, there is a system which works to make and keep them poor. That's undeniable. It's sort of this abusive relationship between the rich and poor, wherein the rich work really hard to keep the poor poor, but then blame them for it as well. But is there not a way that poor people could escape this system? Is there not some set of actions that the poor could take—and the poor are a strong majority of humanity, right?—that they would extricate themselves from the vice grip of the rich? Have they any agency? Or are they just so hopeless that it's impossible?