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> 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 say
by 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.