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Why do poor people insist on creating even more poor people?
Posted on 8/10/17 at 7:46 pm
Posted on 8/10/17 at 7:46 pm
Seriously, man. When poor people are sitting around talking about how poor they are, how come nobody ever says, "You know, I should probably stop getting pregnant."
What is their justification for reproducing and bringing new generations into misery? There has to be a better answer than a bigger welfare check.
What is their justification for reproducing and bringing new generations into misery? There has to be a better answer than a bigger welfare check.
This post was edited on 8/10/17 at 7:47 pm
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Posted on 8/10/17 at 7:47 pm to Slippy
Because why not? They keep getting free money to do so. What's stopping them?
Posted on 8/10/17 at 7:47 pm to Slippy
Think about how stupid the average person is. Then remember half the world is dumber than that.
Posted on 8/10/17 at 7:47 pm to Slippy
The poors typically don't think rationally or plan for the future. That's why they're poor
Posted on 8/10/17 at 7:47 pm to Slippy
Possible attempt at companionship without thinking about wrapping it up in the process?
Posted on 8/10/17 at 7:48 pm to Slippy
Because poor correlates with uneducated, and uneducated correlates with making poor decisions
Posted on 8/10/17 at 7:48 pm to Slippy
quote:nope. That's exactly why
There has to be a better answer than a bigger welfare check
Posted on 8/10/17 at 7:48 pm to Slippy
You should bust more nuts. You'd be happier
Posted on 8/10/17 at 7:48 pm to c on z
If poor people were able to delay gratification they would not be poor.
Posted on 8/10/17 at 7:49 pm to Slippy
I find that if I keep baby in her, she's too tired to run around on me. She's gotta feed them kids, so I alway get a nice meal when I get back from that other girl I'm talking to.
Posted on 8/10/17 at 7:49 pm to Slippy
Because they get a govt check for each one, and that is what they care about, not the child.
Posted on 8/10/17 at 7:49 pm to Slippy
Do you like wearing condoms?
Posted on 8/10/17 at 7:49 pm to Slippy
It's how their parents and everyone around them has lived their entire lives so it's normal to them.
Posted on 8/10/17 at 7:50 pm to Slippy
Best government program ever would be a $10,000 one time payment along with a free vasectomy. Would be so much more efficient.
This post was edited on 8/10/17 at 7:51 pm
Posted on 8/10/17 at 7:50 pm to Slippy
Strength in numbers. People that do things wrong like hanging with others that do things wrong. Successful people like hanging with successful people. Not that hard to figure out.
Posted on 8/10/17 at 7:51 pm to bird35
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If poor people were able to delay gratification they would not be poor.
there is a lot of psychological work on scarcity and how it applies to the brains of these people
essentially, they constantly live in a mindset of scarcity and their brain is simply not wired or capable of thinking long term
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A few years ago, he and Eldar Shafir, a psychology professor at Princeton, started researching a hypothesis. It went like this - when you really want something, you start to focus on it obsessively. When you're hungry, it's hard to think of anything other than food, when you're desperately poor, you constantly worry about making ends meet. Scarcity produces a kind of tunnel vision, and it explains why, when we're in a hole, we often lose sight of long-term priorities and dig ourselves even deeper.
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To be clear, it's not that poor people focus on immediate needs because that's all they want to think about. It's all they can think about. Scarcity captures the mind. In fact, the tunnel vision produced by scarcity can actually lower how you perform on an IQ test.
Posted on 8/10/17 at 7:53 pm to Slippy
Have you ever seen Idiocracy? This is the entire premise of the movie
Posted on 8/10/17 at 7:54 pm to Slippy
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You know, I should probably stop getting pregnant."
The demographical math doesnt work either.
If those on govt assistance are more likely to have children (and they are- see below) lets think about the exponential increase of public assistance this implies. Not good.
Posted on 8/10/17 at 7:56 pm to Big EZ Tiger
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Because f*cking is free.
You always pay for it. Either a little before, or a lot after.
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