Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Poverty. They’re Not

Re:Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Povert... by girvo on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @04:10AM (#17966428)

Thus putting him even further behind in the rat-race, where those who weren’t forced into debt due to their poor choice of birth parents (sarcasm, obviously) and circumstance.

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Re:Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Povert... by ericd on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @04:45AM (#17966603)

Do you think the system should be structured so that no one is ever behind anyone else in the "rat race"?

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Re:Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Povert... by michaelscott on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @08:18AM (#17967742)

From the starting point? Absolutely. That's essentially equality of opportunity in a nutshell. What you do with what you've got from a relatively equal starting point is up to you.

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Re:Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Povert... by ericd on Thursday September 13, 2018 @07:54AM (#17977863)

So you'd advocate for eliminating inheritance, free association between people, the choice of where to live, etc? And if you wanted to get more extreme, as a sibling mentions, eliminate heritable differences?

Or do you just mean things like free education for all?

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Re:Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Povert... by darawk on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @05:11PM (#17973374)

Some people have higher IQs than other people. Should we equalize that, too?

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