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I’d go further—-why do all narratives around poverty have to revolve around the middle class? Either someone used to be middle class and is now poor, grew up po
by bradleyjg 6y ago
I’d go further—-why do all narratives around poverty have to revolve around the middle class? Either someone used to be middle class and is now poor, grew up poor and is now middle class or at very least is moving towards that end.
Where are the stories about people born into poverty, still in poverty, and not likely to be anything but poor for the rest of their lives? There are lots of people like this and cutting out their stories distorts our perceptions.
- collyw 6y ago> Where are the stories about people born into poverty, still in poverty, and not likely to be anything but poor for the rest of their lives? Thomas Sowell says that it's actually a pretty small percentage of people like that. Most poor people are young and most rich people are old. Young people become older and the vast majority work their way up the pay scale to some extent.
- musingsole 6y agoSeems like the thing to put some numbers on. If that perpetually poor narrative is only true for 1% of Americans, that's a population bigger than my hometown being forever mischaracterized and unrepresented. Ignoring the realities of others' lives is how we got rising fascism. I doubt many are comforted in knowing they're a statistical minority.
- collyw 6y agoHe does. I tried to find it on youtube, but there are a lot of Sowell clips. >Ignoring the realities of others' lives is how we got rising fascism. Not sure where that comes from.
- throw1234651234 6y agoI imagine no one cares about those stories for the most part, other than Jack London and Anton Chekhov.