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There is a huge difference. Poor people in America have a much greater ability to change their circumstances - public education, needs based financial aid for e
by nlavezzo 16y ago
There is a huge difference. Poor people in America have a much greater ability to change their circumstances - public education, needs based financial aid for education, job placement programs, military service, etc. Poor people in third world countries generally have almost no way of doing so.
- pavel_lishin 16y agoTrue, but it seems to me that Scalzi's article was focused on what it feels like to be poor, not on the actual objective reality, etc., etc.
- sethg 16y agoThis. Nothing in the essay says “being poor is thinking that absolutely nobody in the world is worse off than you are”.