No; and if I have the time I’ll find an article… but basically poverty is a state that worsens decision making skills. It’s a chronic crisis, a chronic stresso

No; and if I have the time I’ll find an article… but basically poverty is a state that worsens decision making skills. It’s a chronic crisis, a chronic stressor, and it affects the way people think. Short-term infusion of money will probably be blown on what you might consider to be frivolities because of this reason. There are exceptions, to be sure, and plenty of ignorance about good decisions… but “poor decision making skills” is at best a crass, misleading oversimplification. (Most dangerously it’s intentionally used to mislead.)