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Giggle, this article is hogwash. Lets take some numbers and opine about poor people. I'm sure a few paragraphs can cover the social complexities and giant boul

Giggle, this article is hogwash. Lets take some numbers and opine about poor people. I'm sure a few paragraphs can cover the social complexities and giant boulder on-top of soul feeling that is poverty. Edit: No I am not going to do an extensive write-up myself. Try out this experiment, be born into a poor county where you produce actual goods like automobiles. Then watch as your family has their pensions attacked by blood thirty wealthy fucks that have think-tanks put out articles in Fox News and WSJ how your family doesn't deserve the monies contracted to them. How the unions they belong to, made to counter the ultra-monied's inherent power, are "Killing America™." All this while putting 10 hours shifts to cover you and most likely your elder's bills. This is what the author is writing about, yet twists it into some dry cut about why the poor don't work because they lack incentive or are 'economically rational.' ... What's that? You can't be reborn into poverty to experience from childhood on up? OK don't bloody write about it then.

ejk314 13y ago
> I'm sure a few paragraphs can cover the social complexities and giant boulder on-top of soul feeling that is poverty. By that logic we might as well throw out all social commentary.
- streetnigga 13y ago
  Yes. Most social commentary like the parent article here is essentially worthless. A point to start discussion, but on it's own almost completely void of meaning. Correct, throw it out.
  - yetanotherphd 13y ago
    No, he mean all social commentary. Almost all of the journalists and professors who preach the point of view you advocate (big bad corporations and fox news stealing from the poor) did not themselves experience poverty. And some right-wingers experienced it too. So "throw out stuff I don't like" does not follow from your claim that only people who have experienced poverty can speak about it.
- brazzy 13y ago
  Only the breathtakingly ignorant social commentary embodied by TFA.

ejk314 13y ago

> I'm sure a few paragraphs can cover the social complexities and giant boulder on-top of soul feeling that is poverty. By that logic we might as well throw out all social commentary.

streetnigga 13y ago
Yes. Most social commentary like the parent article here is essentially worthless. A point to start discussion, but on it's own almost completely void of meaning. Correct, throw it out.
- yetanotherphd 13y ago
  No, he mean all social commentary. Almost all of the journalists and professors who preach the point of view you advocate (big bad corporations and fox news stealing from the poor) did not themselves experience poverty. And some right-wingers experienced it too. So "throw out stuff I don't like" does not follow from your claim that only people who have experienced poverty can speak about it.
brazzy 13y ago
Only the breathtakingly ignorant social commentary embodied by TFA.