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It could be most beneficial to people currently in poverty, to try out strategies for escaping it.
by tlb 4y ago
It could be most beneficial to people currently in poverty, to try out strategies for escaping it.
- wwilim 4y agoThat sounds like practicing standing up to school bullies by playing Street Fighter
- verytrivial 4y agoI'm not sure exactly how you're meaning this, but I think there is widespread ignorance around how people whom are poor are simply unable to improve their lot. It's often not about making the right choices and more there not being any choices.
- DarylZero 4y agoYes poverty is caused by people not knowing certain strategies, and those strategies are of course known by people who are not poor... come on.
- tlb 4y agoThe strategies for the first steps out of poverty are different from strategies to rise within the middle class. So they're mostly not known by people who aren't poor. For example, many government aid programs are (intentionally) obscure. Signing up for food stamps is so complicated, there's a charity that just helps people do it (https://www.mrelief.com https://www.mrelief.com). And there are plenty more strategies that help people, like for making cheap nutritious food. Any of these can be taught.
- DarylZero 4y agoThat's a good example of the kind of practical thing that people in poverty are more likely to know. Of course it's an example of a strategy for coping with poverty, rather than a step out of poverty. (A common misconception is that by avoiding spending, one can escape poverty, but this is not the case, because poverty is a lack of income.)
- tejtm 4y agoexposure to / awareness of what I would call "financial horizons" is the biggest thing for me. In poverty there is neither reason nor energy to waste beyond a conceivably actionable point. Learning to overcome that horizon is critical and I think it becomes more difficult the older we get.