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On individual scale you’re right, but on the collective level I think both you and GP are right, it’s a feedback loop. Places become poor for different reasons
by fellowmartian 3y ago
On individual scale you’re right, but on the collective level I think both you and GP are right, it’s a feedback loop.
Places become poor for different reasons: shifting economic realities, fall of the previous civilization (eg USSR, which is my experience), etc.
Places remain poor when people feel trapped inside vs consciously deciding to call the place home.
- dwb 3y agoI sort of acknowledged that when I said it was a complex relationship. I'm sure there are feedback loops set up where experiencing poverty makes you more likely to stay poor, and so on. But to say poverty is simply a state of mind seems drastically and dangerously wrong to me.