Re:Capitalism Has Gone Off the Rails
by dragonwriter on Monday November 03, 2014 @12:21PM
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> And yet, I can't shake the feeling that if you took away all my money and property, I would be employed and back in an apartment in a month.
Perhaps. Certainly, the advantages of a relatively privileged condition aren't limited to money and property, but include lots of deeper advantages that (among other things) are useful for the gain of money and property. That's among the reasons why generational poverty is is generational, and requires active effort to break the cycle rather than simply the absence of active effort to maintain it.
> What's a guy to think, when folks complain about how its too hard to move, to get an education, to save money, when I know I can do it?
You could maybe use that ability to get an education you are so proud of to learn enough to have some broader basis for understanding the world than simply your experience of what you are able to do given your own particular circumstances.
Perhaps. Certainly, the advantages of a relatively privileged condition aren't limited to money and property, but include lots of deeper advantages that (among other things) are useful for the gain of money and property. That's among the reasons why generational poverty is is generational, and requires active effort to break the cycle rather than simply the absence of active effort to maintain it.
> What's a guy to think, when folks complain about how its too hard to move, to get an education, to save money, when I know I can do it?
You could maybe use that ability to get an education you are so proud of to learn enough to have some broader basis for understanding the world than simply your experience of what you are able to do given your own particular circumstances.