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You paint the most damning portrait of America I've ever heard, can you help flesh this out? Can you source your 40% figure? The only child poverty number I f
by mchusma 12y ago
You paint the most damning portrait of America I've ever heard, can you help flesh this out?
Can you source your 40% figure? The only child poverty number I found is 21.8% for 2012. [1]
For those in poverty, can you provide more insight to why you think they have "virtually no chance at all of being able to even play in the capitalist economy"? I think everyone would agree they are at a disadvantage, but there are several people on the Forbes 400 this year who came out of poverty. Both of my parents came out of poverty, even you said you made it out of poverty.
Can you provide some anecdotal insight to your peers who fell "prey for the tech titans, who fill their eyes with glittery visions that make them forget their hunger and cold."
[1] http://web.stanford.edu/group/scspi/sotu/SOTU_2014_CPI.pdf http://web.stanford.edu/group/scspi/sotu/SOTU_2014_CPI.pdf
- hindsightbias 12y agoThere are rare exceptions. Perhaps HN should do a poll, how many here started out in poverty? > who fill their eyes My presumption is that he is referring to the movement towards digital/virtual consumption and away from physical consumption. The rich and poor entertain themselves in much the same way now, but that doesn't give us a way out of the trend: http://rick.bookstaber.com/2013/11/live-to-eat-eat-to-live.html http://rick.bookstaber.com/2013/11/live-to-eat-eat-to-live.h... Maybe poor kids will have more access to tools now, but will those tools be relevant in their economic age? Musicians and artists have had all these amazing tools - but is anyone making a living off of them?