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People with education and good parents are at the table playing the game. The poor and disadvantaged are playing a different game, with its own pressures and ps
by benaston 13y ago
People with education and good parents are at the table playing the game. The poor and disadvantaged are playing a different game, with its own pressures and psychological frame. Decision making is dependant on psychological frame, and decisions made by players either game look strange to players in the other. The OP makes the mistake of moralising when he should be empathising.
- IanDrake 13y agoThe problem with that thinking is the poor and uneducated make demands on the educated and productive. If they want to live in squalor, who am I to judge. If they want what I have, I have something to say about that.
- benaston 13y agoSurely you don't begrudge them wanting/aspiring to something better. I presume you mean that if they expect to have the trappings of success without putting in any effort then you have something to say. But even then, that is merely an expectation that will remain unfulfilled. If a group of people actually receives the trappings of success without effort then, I agree with you, but this is not born out by everyday experience. The poor and disadvantaged are comparatively, well, poor and disadvantaged when compared to the successful. So, if my anecdotal experience matches reality then the problem becomes, "how best to help?".
- judk 13y agoYou were born poor an educated before wealth and educaion where poured on your head. OK, this is HN, so I'm sure you lifted yourself by your bootstraps out of the dirt. But the majority of your neighbors did not.