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restingrobot
9y ago
I understand issues come up, that doesn't mean that you must overdraft or take a crappy loan. There are so many options for every scenario. Also coming from poverty, one of the hardest life lessons I had to learn was how to be self re
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restingrobot
9y ago
I don't understand your point here? Yes banks try to benefit themselves as far as checking goes. But as long as you only spend what you have in your account, (as in available funds), then you will never have a scenario like this. I hav
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restingrobot
9y ago
Can you provide factual basis for this statement?
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restingrobot
9y ago
Its incredibly naive to say that IQ and poverty are causally related. Yes there is correlation between higher IQ's and higher incomes, but you are making a sweeping generalization here implying causality.
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restingrobot
9y ago
Consider this example: It is raining outside. I go outside without a coat and get wet. I tell you its ok to go outside without a coat, so you come outside without wearing a coat. Is it my fault that you are wet, or your own? I would say tha
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restingrobot
9y ago
You have moved to an ad hominem approach regarding my past, normally I wouldn't even respond to this, but in this instance you are completely wrong. I actually grew up very poor. As in my next meal was a privilege and not a guaranteed
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restingrobot
9y ago
Its easy to reconcile both of these statements. Those that grew up in poor households often witnessed their parents make poor economic decisions. If you make the same decisions as your parents, (possibly because they just don't know an
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restingrobot
9y ago
There are many assumptions made by this article in an attempt to build a straw man. First, there are many places where the author references children. Yes people in poverty have children, but the points she makes, also assume that the indiv
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restingrobot
9y ago
I uploaded a stock image and got a 88% overall. I really can't make any decisions based on this.