Off Topic — HabitableZone

Off Topic » in reply to Just because you don't like the facts, doesn't make them idiotic.

No, I do like your facts, I just don't like simplistic prostletizing

.. especially in the service of ideological flogging-of-a-dead-horse. Didn't we deal with this topic a lot lately? I thought you were trying to over-make your point. But I don't mean to be disrespectful.

In any case, those human qualities are certainly admirable and outstanding, and do help people overcome or prevent poverty. What is simplistic to the point of caricature, is the statement

But it typically is personal failure and social dysfunction that create poverty.


Just because that statement can be true in SOME cases does not mean that it could be credibly used as a descriptor of a very widespread and ancient social phenomenon. That's absurdly simplistic.

In any case, I'll make sure to mention it to the next example of the working poor that I meet - for instance, the taxi driver who works all night to pay for the fuel he needs for his car, to travel to the only day job he was able to land.

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