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There is no scheme to keep poor people poor, the system is just setup that obtaining wealth is easier when you have wealth. The number one indicator of a person
by chickenpotpie 6y ago
There is no scheme to keep poor people poor, the system is just setup that obtaining wealth is easier when you have wealth. The number one indicator of a persons ability to make money is the money their parents make, we call this intergenerational wealth. An example of work going further when you’re rich is college. One kid born rich and one kid born poor. Let’s say they both work 60 hours a week. They’re both hard workers, but the poor student has to redirect some of those hours to a job to pay for school and the rich students can dedicate all their hours to school. At 4 years time they both worked exactly as hard, but the rich student has better grades because they could dedicate more time to school. Nobody said that everyone that is poor is exempt from blame or that rich people don’t work. Those were huge jumps in reasoning you made. What they were saying is that you have to work harder when you’re poor to get less because you’re at a disadvantage.
- cestith 6y agoThere are some schemes that have kept poor people poor even if that was not the explicit reasoning. Racial redlines do that. Independent school districts funded mostly from hyperlocal real estate taxes do that. Allowing predatory payday loans and huge overdraft fees contribute to it. Treating homelessness and drug use as crimes rather than problems to be solved definitely do that.