Well the OP was saying that poverty has a psychological dimension and it seems to me you agree with that. From your perspective that psychological dimension ca

Well the OP was saying that poverty has a psychological dimension and it seems to me you agree with that. From your perspective that psychological dimension can be explained without much interiority (i.e. makes you do stupid things) but for the OP it needs explaining from the inside in terms of feelings. You are both saying very similar things except you are applying very different value judgements to them. If I had to guess I would say you have a rather more deterministic / mechanistic view of the human experience than the OP.