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Who said anything about being rich? I was talking about avoiding poverty. I was talking about what we should be teaching the young. Being born into a family th
by humanrebar 5y ago
Who said anything about being rich? I was talking about avoiding poverty.
I was talking about what we should be teaching the young. Being born into a family that knows how to avoid unforced mistakes is absolutely important. Especially if society is to busy emoting about poverty to teach young people the "secrets" of avoiding it.
I pointed out that the emergency fund is a risk management strategy. It's for people eke their way into some money. Telling poor people to just have savings is useless, but that wasn't what I was saying.
- watwut 5y agoIt seem that statistically, people who don't make unenforced errors still don't change social class. You want to change the topic from "how people actually become and start in their social classes" into different one. As if telling truth about current social and economic structures should not be said, because someone may make one more mistake as a result. Like in particular teenage pregnancies are going down while social mobility also goes down. Non pregnant teenagers are still unlikely go from poor to non poor. Avoiding powerty is something you do when you start in higher class and prevents falling. But most poor were born that way was my point. Lastly, if my daughter got pregnant, she would be able to get enough financial support from me to finish high school and college. It would sux, but she would not become poor because of that.