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What's the relevance of doxxing here? I've had a young relative who never had any money problems (trust fund to look forward to etc) get hooked on opioids and

What's the relevance of doxxing here? I've had a young relative who never had any money problems (trust fund to look forward to etc) get hooked on opioids and eventually die a horrible OD death in someone's airbnb. I think @sema4hacker makes some excellent points about the lack of guidance for children and youths having been through the hell of chasing a child around on the streets to try and save them. Had I tried to educate that person when they were young maybe they would still be here and his mother wouldn't be a broken person.

WalterGR 4y ago
Doxxing? You can see anyone's comments by clicking their username then "comments". I didn't mean the question as an ad hominem. I just thought it was interesting. I think people's socioeconomic background strongly affects their beliefs on how other people should behave in order to become successful (or in this case, perhaps simply: not homeless.)
- olivermarks 4y ago
  I strongly disagree with 'People's socioeconomic background strongly affects their beliefs on how other people should behave in order to become successful'. I would suggest a lot of people from lifelong comfortable backgrounds sometimes have little idea of what it is like to be poor, but they all too often know all about broken families, drug/alcohol addiction and serious mental illness.
  - altruios 4y ago
    when you say strongly disagree - why would it not? why shouldn't it be that how people treating money around you affect how you treat money? it would be nonsensical to imply there was no correlation.
- beepbooptheory 4y ago
  It is quite clear anyway the GP's socioeconomic background from the content of his comment... Hard to imagine that kind of paternalism from anyone making less than six figures.
  - MichaelZuo 4y ago
    You can’t easily imagine the existence of monks?
    - beepbooptheory 4y ago
      Monks, of all people, recognize that building moral character is not done because it brings material rewards, and in fact its quite the opposite.
      - olivermarks 4y ago
        Exactly. you can be very wealthy, go into a monastry to build moral character and leave all that behind. I have an old friend who was self made v wealthy by the time he was twenty, gave it all up and now spends a lot of time helping disadvantaged people. The assumption that being set for life, wealthy etc equals a person who is callous about others is as nonsensical as the idea a psychologically badly damaged person living on the streets can just pull themselves together, get a job and straighten out... specious and very rigid narrow perspectives
        WalterGR 4y ago
        > The assumption that being set for life, wealthy etc equals a person who is callous about others is as nonsensical... But nobody is claiming that. You're right, it is nonsensical! I think the question is: To what degree does one's wealth affect how one believes others should behave to achieve similar success and/or not be homeless?
        MichaelZuo 4y ago
        Unknown, and probably will never be known to any degree of certainty.

WalterGR 4y ago

Doxxing? You can see anyone's comments by clicking their username then "comments". I didn't mean the question as an ad hominem. I just thought it was interesting. I think people's socioeconomic background strongly affects their beliefs on how other people should behave in order to become successful (or in this case, perhaps simply: not homeless.)

olivermarks 4y ago
I strongly disagree with 'People's socioeconomic background strongly affects their beliefs on how other people should behave in order to become successful'. I would suggest a lot of people from lifelong comfortable backgrounds sometimes have little idea of what it is like to be poor, but they all too often know all about broken families, drug/alcohol addiction and serious mental illness.
- altruios 4y ago
  when you say strongly disagree - why would it not? why shouldn't it be that how people treating money around you affect how you treat money? it would be nonsensical to imply there was no correlation.
beepbooptheory 4y ago
It is quite clear anyway the GP's socioeconomic background from the content of his comment... Hard to imagine that kind of paternalism from anyone making less than six figures.
- MichaelZuo 4y ago
  You can’t easily imagine the existence of monks?
  - beepbooptheory 4y ago
    Monks, of all people, recognize that building moral character is not done because it brings material rewards, and in fact its quite the opposite.
    - olivermarks 4y ago
      Exactly. you can be very wealthy, go into a monastry to build moral character and leave all that behind. I have an old friend who was self made v wealthy by the time he was twenty, gave it all up and now spends a lot of time helping disadvantaged people. The assumption that being set for life, wealthy etc equals a person who is callous about others is as nonsensical as the idea a psychologically badly damaged person living on the streets can just pull themselves together, get a job and straighten out... specious and very rigid narrow perspectives
      - WalterGR 4y ago
        > The assumption that being set for life, wealthy etc equals a person who is callous about others is as nonsensical... But nobody is claiming that. You're right, it is nonsensical! I think the question is: To what degree does one's wealth affect how one believes others should behave to achieve similar success and/or not be homeless?
        MichaelZuo 4y ago
        Unknown, and probably will never be known to any degree of certainty.