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Re:You misunderstand what it means to be poor by charcircuit on Friday November 14, 2025 @02:31PM (#45931061)
>This isn't a math problem.

It's an optimization problem, which I would consider a category of math problems. Not wanting to perform a solution or not being able to figure out a solution, or know how to find someone to solve it for them is a mind problem.

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Re:You misunderstand what it means to be poor by pvankessel on Friday November 14, 2025 @04:29PM (#45932413)
This view of the world puts everything on the individual. It might be worth reading up on structuralism to balance that perspective out a bit. I'm somewhere in the middle of the two extremes myself, but surely one must acknowledge that there are larger systems at play that can constrain an individual's ability to "optimize".
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