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> true poverty is a lack of those things and a lack of hope that your situation will improve. I'm not sure where your second criterion comes from. I don't thin
by PhasmaFelis 9y ago
> true poverty is a lack of those things and a lack of hope that your situation will improve.
I'm not sure where your second criterion comes from. I don't think "poverty" excludes anyone who aspires to someday leave poverty.
- thomastjeffery 9y agoAspiration and hopelessness are not mutually exclusive.
- PhasmaFelis 9y agoThey're equally irrelevant, though. Poverty is when you don't have enough money. It's not a state of mind. I thought some more about part of your earlier post: > If you are really feeling hopeless you don't turn to HN for news on the latest programming frameworks. This really doesn't make sense. I've known at least one desperately poor and depressed person who found escape and satisfaction in scavenging and programming discarded hardware. There's no reason people in poverty can't be hackers. Arguably they've got more motivation to hack than people who can just buy the latest widgets off-the-shelf.
- thomastjeffery 9y ago> I thought some more about part of your earlier post Maybe you should double-check those usernames.