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Are you poor because you depressed, or depressed because you are poor?
by Eddy_Viscosity2 5y ago
Are you poor because you depressed, or depressed because you are poor?
- lstodd 5y agoMeaningless question. Am I rich because I'm depressed or am I depressed because I'm rich? That's two independent variables.
- Eddy_Viscosity2 5y agoAre they independent though?
- tombh 5y agoAnd that's a meaningless reframing. It is not a fundamental logical rule that you can change one side of a relationship in order to demonstrate its irrelevance. For example, "Did the chicken come before the egg?" can't be refuted as a useful thought experiment just by showing that "Did the monkey come before the egg?" is nonsense.
- naasking 5y agoPoverty is a strange loop.