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This is a brilliant example, but even after reading the article, I feel like it needs a stronger connection to the problems of poverty. So, anyway, Guys, the s
by Unseelie 15y ago
This is a brilliant example, but even after reading the article, I feel like it needs a stronger connection to the problems of poverty.
So, anyway, Guys, the situation where you're in a room where people are screaming is poverty, but its only one moment of poverty. In poverty, you go into that room over and over and over again. You can't afford to keep your whole reality quiet, but you can buy a moment or two of peace, by paying more money than you can rightly afford to spend, if you've a longterm goal to support. You may go into debt for a TV to relieve the oppresive boredome, or spend change you shooldn't on a sweet, to eat something nice.
Those breif respites are massively appealing, even though they don't last, and very possibly set you back, because remember, you're living in a situation where everyone is always screaming. A moment's peace is worth not making it out.
- ams6110 15y agoIf you tie in the theory of addiction this makes even more sense; addictive substances provide some temporary escape or pleasure but you quickly feel as bad as before or maybe even worse, which makes the next "escape" even more compelling.