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Downvotes are cool but counter-arguments are more convincing.
by Mc_Big_G 8y ago
Downvotes are cool but counter-arguments are more convincing.
- the_gastropod 8y agoPeople read these kinds of comments as "pull yourself up by your bootstraps!". There are impoverished people who probably cannot do this. But if you're middle class, and you're healthy, you almost certainly have 0 excuse to not be able to retire.
- trexpersecond 8y agoYou sound like my sister. By the way it was not me who downvoted you. I didn't upvote you either though, lol. I grew up around the tone of superiority that you are, knowlingly or not, expressing. It really just sounds like you blame the poor for their own poverty. That's kind of niave. For one, the economic conditions in our country have changed. So managing to save now is a little harder than it was in the past. Another thing is you blame the poor for being too lazy to do this long list of things but if your hatred were actually sincere you would have had enough introspection to realize that growing their own food is not something they are capable of doing. etc. The class gap is widening and it's not pretty.
- Scott_Sanderson 8y agoWait there are downvotes on HN?
- Sohcahtoa82 8y agoYes, but you have to have at least 501 karma to be able to downvote. Until then, the arrow never appears.