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Yes, bad things happen to people. I absolutely agree. I fail to see how that statement is related to the article or my comment on it though.
by saintPirelli 8y ago
Yes, bad things happen to people. I absolutely agree. I fail to see how that statement is related to the article or my comment on it though.
- DoreenMichele 8y agoIt means it isn't a chicken and egg problem. It isn't a question of which came first: bad decisions or poverty? You can be comfortably well off, do all the right things and find your life suddenly coming unraveled through no fault of your own.
- saintPirelli 8y agoYou can also be uncomfortably poor, win the lottery and find your life suddenly becoming amazing through no fault of your own. You shouldn't use edge cases to discuss a general rule.
- JanisL 8y agoI think the argument people are making is that it's a lot less of an edge case than people think.
- upvotinglurker 8y agoYes. It seems like never having a serious health problem in your life would be the "edge case," at least if you live to be elderly.
- JanisL 8y agoWith life expectancy getting longer and longer I think this is increasingly the case.
- DoreenMichele 8y agoThe last statistics I saw indicated that more than half of all US bankruptcies were due to high medical bills and even having "good" insurance by American standards was no guarantee of protection. That hardly constitutes an edge case.
- saintPirelli 8y agoMaybe edge case wasn't the right wording. What I meant was that in a discussion about whether x leads to y, saying "z could happen to you though" isn't exactly on the point.
- yellowapple 8y agoLast I checked, it's significantly more likely to become poor through no fault of one's own than to become rich through no fault of one's own.
- throwawayj90 8y agoWell sure, you’re only born once (being born into money is the best way to become rich), but losing your job or your house or your health are all things that can happen throughout most of you’re life.