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 throwaway77384 on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @04:48AM (#17966618)

And not sharing them doesn't either.

You still haven't made a point.

Is the intelligent action the action that is most likely to benefit the group?

Is a group of 20 fed dogs stronger than a group of 20 dogs where one goes hungry and becomes a weak or unstable element?

Seems like you're just trying to somehow rally against equality and/or sharing, by associating them with naivité, like you have some knowledge others do not, because you don't like those words, rather than trying to actually discuss the concepts they represent, specifically in this context, properly.

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Re:Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Povert... by throwaway8879 on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @04:55AM (#17966654)

I'm not trying to make a point or rallying against anything. I'm simply saying that I work hard to acquire resources for myself and will never give them away. We can all make moral/ethical/humane arguments about equality and fairness but I simply don't care. If that makes me unintelligent, then I suppose that's just something I'll have to accept.

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Re:Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Povert... by spython on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @05:28AM (#17966821)

You seem to overlook a wide range of resources - trust, admiration and friendship of others are also resources. So is a society in which people don't let each other live in poverty. The willingness of others to work with you is a resource, which you acknowledge by using a throwaway.

You don't 'give away' resources, they are transformed into other resources. Would you give up the ability to own seven cars for the knowledge that you'll never live under a bridge, no matter what? Many people would.

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Re:Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Povert... by bildung on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @05:17AM (#17966778)

Are you really working hard, or are you working in IT, in a first world country?

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Re:Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Povert... by michaelmrose on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @05:27AM (#17966818)

Probably working more intelligently but less hard than the average person at Walmart.

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Re:Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Povert... by TheOtherHobbes on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @05:43AM (#17966886)

Probably in finance, at a guess.

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Re:Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Povert... by bacro on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @05:29AM (#17966825)

Wow, how bright you are sir... If everybody thought like you, we would have a wonderful world, I am sure!

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Re:Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Povert... by mch82 on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @06:11AM (#17967008)

So you choose the suboptimal box in the prisoners’ dilemma?

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Re:Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Povert... by xphx on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @04:07PM (#17972672)

Hopefully useful nitpick: In the "prisoner's dilemma", it's the dominant strategy. It's only sub-optimal in the /iterated/ prisoner's dilemma, the ominous reason being an expectation of continuity.

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