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There’s little doubt that becoming an adult with little educational preparation and scarce financial resources is very much harder than being well-equipped with
by sokoloff 3y ago
There’s little doubt that becoming an adult with little educational preparation and scarce financial resources is very much harder than being well-equipped with both. I don’t think GP is disagreeing with that, but rather with the premise that poor people in 2027 are poor because there was nothing they could do in 2024, but rather that with an amount of devoted and concerted effort, some can lift themselves out in 2027 well above where they entered 2024.
You’re making a “b” argument. GP is making an “m” argument, while acknowledging the effect of “b”.
- thfuran 3y ago>but rather with the premise that poor people in 2027 are poor because there was nothing they could do in 2024 That is an argument that no one in this thread has made. Poverty is obviously not inescapable.
- wolverine876 3y ago> Poverty is obviously not inescapable. It may depend on what you mean. It's not inescapable to some - they escape it. It maybe inescapable to others; most don't escape it.
- thfuran 3y agoThat I didn't win the lottery last time I bought a ticket doesn't mean I couldn't have.
- wolverine876 3y agoIt doesn't mean you could. Also, if your chance of something is 1 in a billion, does that meet any meaningful definition of 'possible'?