re: Is poverty the common denominator of every major social problem?

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Go to wealthy communities and the divorce rate is high

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The divorce rate is lower among the wealthy.

If poverty was the problem, then why wasn’t crime rates much higher in the past when poverty rates were far higher than they are today?

A lot of shitty eating in every demographic. Fast food, ultra-processed, etc...

Divorce, or unwed parents having babies. All evil can be traced back to this

In fact, there is data (I first read it in freakanomics) that suggest that 20 years after abortion became legal, crime started to drop. It became legal nationwide in the early 70s. By the mid to late 90s crime (violent crime) started to drop.

The population increased as crime decreased. You hear about more crimes today with social media so it seems like there is a lot more crime.

You just have to follow some relatively easy rules to not be poor.

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But what causes poverty? I’d say taking the father out of the picture has a large part to do with it. Look at family dynamics of urban inner cities where matriarchal is rampant. State plays the role of provider, enabling women to make bad choices. Boys don’t grow learning how to be a man. In fact some will feel betrayed by their father for abandonment. Most end up in the streets, confused, and jumping at the 1st chance to prove their pseudo masculine bravado through gangs. Ever notice how they refer gangs as a brotherhood? The results is violence on other gangs. The cycle repeats.

Kids in single mother household are 2-10x more likely to
- have teen pregnacy
-drop out high school
-runaway
-substance abuse
-join gangs
-behavioral problems
-suicide
-incarceration
-stds

Stands to reason that if youre making terrible life decisions then you're probably also not doing well in school or in a career.

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I didn’t say poverty was “the problem.” I said it was a common denominator.

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The correlation between crime & poverty is a flawed argument. If poverty causes crime then crime would have been sky high a century ago. As I stated above in the past 120 years the poverty rate in the US dropped from almost 60% to below 12%. If there was a connection between poverty and crime, logic dictates crime would fall as poverty falls. But in that 120 year timespan crime hasn’t fallen. It’s risen.

Thus something else is the cause of all of society’s ills listed in the OP. To determine what that is we need to look at what has changed about society in that timespan. Logic should tell you the main changes in society during that time is far higher divorce rates and far more people with a secular worldview that rejects traditional societal norms. Basically what it boils down to is that it isn’t poverty causing our problems, it’s our rejection of the traditional Judeo-Christian values our society was founded on.

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Basically what it boils down to is that it isn’t poverty causing our problems, it’s our rejection of the traditional Judeo-Christian values our society was founded on.

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And what values are those exactly?