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I'm sad that you're getting downvoted for posting what you obviously experienced personally. I can't agree or disagree with most of it, since it wasn't my expe

I'm sad that you're getting downvoted for posting what you obviously experienced personally. I can't agree or disagree with most of it, since it wasn't my experience, but I do want to change your mind on one point: " And make stupid decisions like voting for the guy who gives out $1 bread, sprays money in the air and ends up stealing $10mil." Perhaps it does make some people make stupid decisions, but I'm become very careful in what I label "stupid". When you've got un-met needs, you do what you have to in order to fulfill that need. If you can get free bread and money in return for a promise to vote a certain way, that's basic incentives.

dsfyu404ed 7y ago
The demographics of HN are well known. The average biases of said demographics are well known. It is telling but not exactly surprising that every single comment that claims to have first hand experience with poverty is disagreeing* with the GP and also grey and at the bottom. *GP seems to be placing arguing that psychological factors are key to what makes poverty suck and most of the people disagreeing seem to think psychological factors are a non-issue or take a distant second place to more immediate material concerns (though they don't necessarily agree beyond that).