Posted on 12/26/2013 6:46:14 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Poverty is mostly about attitude. Folks that become poor due to bad luck don’t usually stay poor. People with bad attitudes will stay poor even if they have good luck. Now, there is a new component...government imposed poverty. We will see how that one works out...
Based on a relatively small cohort of folks who barely get by, I’d say poor choices, inability to recognize them and change, poor choices of parents/family, and once caught in the spiral of poverty the challenge of getting out of it.
It’s not a lottery if a rich person has a child. He knows the child will be well off, and if the rich person is smart, his child will probably be smart, too. This article looks at it as though there are xmillion people born every year, and every one of them is fungible, and you could be one born to the rich guy or the poor guy. But the rich guy makes his child, just as a carpenter makes a birdhouse. It can be a crappy birdhouse or a nice one, but it’s not luck that makes the birdhouse a good one. It is what the carpenter puts into it.
Are they trying to make a logical argument for removing all children born in unfortunate circumstances and placing them with the better off?
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