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

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SlowFlowPro

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Thank God you entered this thread, the amount of stupidity in one thread blows my mind. You and LL

Sad most people in this thread have a vote, because they fricking suck at stats and understanding things on a macro level.

Like the argument that kids at higher socioeconomic classes are just as likely to commit crime and be one drugs? Wtf??? Do the ones making these arguments even understand statistics at all?

The argument that crime is worse now!!! Again WTF!!???

So you know a rich white girl who got pregnant in high school and now rich whites have the same teen pregnancy rates?? Do you even math bro???

Upper middle and rich have the same divorce rate as the poor?? Do you stupid mother frickers know how to use Google at all? The stats are out there plain as day.

Look this is the USA and in the end 99% of the people in this country are self made, good or bad, they are self made from their own decisions.

But to the overall theme of the thread and SFP's 8 there are certain things you can do to almost virtually assure you do not end up being poor.

enter adulthood with three major responsibilities:

1) at least finish high school
2) get a full-time job
3) wait until age 21 to get married and have children.

If you do those things, the stats show you have less than a 3% chance of staying in poverty. If you wait until 25 to have kids it's less than a 2% chance you remain in poverty. Of you do not commit a felony and do the above the percentage drops even more. Google rules to not be poor and it shows the stats.

Now you must do like SFP said and Dodge the stray bullets so to speak. But the stray bullets are the outliers not the trend.

LL talked about IQ and that is a big driver and will be more so in the future. Those rules hold true now but as technology advances there maybe other indicators also. And some of that can not be fixed

Want to fix most of the problems, reward good behavior...i.e. no pregnancy in the poor....do not reward bad behavior like dropping out and getting pregnant and start preaching the above 3 rules everywhere. You have to make kids understand their decisions as teenagers will effect the rest of their lives.

The lower iq people are still going to have issues making the correct decision and you know what...frick em, let them seek help from charities or family or let them die, I don't care, just stop rewarding their bad behavior.

Some will still do as they want, low IQ or not and nothing you can do about that. Growing up we were told all the time, even back to first grade, pay attention or you will end up as a trash man or digging ditches. I am Facebook friends with plenty of the ones that didn't listen, now Johnny bugger eater is pissed and gripes about the "rich" holding him back and we need to punish those who are rich etc.

The worst are the common core post. Newsflash Karen, you couldn't do second grade math when we were in second grade....wtf things you can teach it your kid 15 years later?

Or the dumbass females that are single and poor as shite laughing about how much of a waste algebra was and how nobody uses that in the real world.

no being poor doesn't cause every social problem...the breakdown of the family unit and the lack of understanding that decisions have consequences is the bigger issue.

Tldr: most of you in this thread are fricking stupid and don't understand statistics.