Rich people do have trouble understanding what it's like to be poor

Re:Rich people do have trouble understanding what it's like ... by portemonnaie on Saturday May 22, 2021 @10:47AM (#27247020)

I miss the part where they show that the rich people's "choice mindset" is wrong? Are we just going to accept at face value that poor people have no choices whatsoever and are simply victims of society (and of course capitalism, I guess)? To me, that sounds a lot like religion.

Of course you can not assume that everybody could be equally rich, and only their choices are to blame if they are not. But the other extreme, that people are just born to be poor no matter what choices they make, is equally silly.

What if the "I have no choice" mindest of poor people is partly to blame for their predicament?

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Re:Rich people do have trouble understanding what it's like ... by Miner49er on Saturday May 22, 2021 @11:55AM (#27247696)

The article doesn't say they have no choices it says they have less/limited choices. And this is simply a common sense fact. The more resources/power you have the more options you have.

I can buy so many more things and combinations of things with $100 vs $1, for example.

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Re:Rich people do have trouble understanding what it's like ... by webmaven on Saturday May 22, 2021 @08:25PM (#27251438)

> The article doesn't say they have no choices it says they have less/limited choices.

When you are poor, sometimes all of the choices available to you are bad ones.

And when you are constrained to making an endless series of 'least bad' choices, is it any wonder that at some point you inevitably go for some instant gratification to ameliorate your intolerable circumstance, at least for a while?

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Re:Rich people do have trouble understanding what it's like ... by portemonnaie on Sunday May 23, 2021 @04:44PM (#27258434)

School is being paid for, even in the US, I think? Just keep your head down, do your homework, don't do drugs, don't get in trouble, and your odds for escaping poverty are probably quite good.

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Re:Rich people do have trouble understanding what it's like ... by portemonnaie on Saturday May 22, 2021 @03:17PM (#27249490)

Sure, but I don't think most rich people think poor people have just the same choices. That's not implied when they think choices make people poor.

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