This concept of poverty as some kind of invisible monster that randomly afflicts totally innocent people is so retarded. The same behaviors that lead to single mothers and drug abuse and crime and homelessness also lead to poverty. The primary relationship between these issues is defined by correlation and comorbidity, not causation. Appeals to “muh poverty” are designed to offload accountability. Is it always the case that poverty is “your fault”? No. But poverty isn’t the end-all explanation for anti-social behavior.
Poverty is a learned behavior, you actively have to repeatedly make bad life decisions to stay poor in the US. Certain cultures make this an easy thing to do, as there are cultural pressures to live a certain way, but no one holds a gun to their heads.
A life of crime is one of those choices. So is bearing children while young and/or single, and dropping out of school.
This concept of poverty as some kind of invisible monster that randomly afflicts totally innocent people is so retarded. The same behaviors that lead to single mothers and drug abuse and crime and homelessness also lead to poverty. The primary relationship between these issues is defined by correlation and comorbidity, not causation. Appeals to “muh poverty” are designed to offload accountability. Is it always the case that poverty is “your fault”? No. But poverty isn’t the end-all explanation for anti-social behavior.
Exactly, it's like when they call addiction a disease, as if the person didn't choose drugs to start at some point
Poverty is a learned behavior, you actively have to repeatedly make bad life decisions to stay poor in the US. Certain cultures make this an easy thing to do, as there are cultural pressures to live a certain way, but no one holds a gun to their heads.
A life of crime is one of those choices. So is bearing children while young and/or single, and dropping out of school.