re: As a former poor person, most poor people are useless and do nothing for society

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his is not been really true for the last 40 years. In reality, if you know what zip code someone lived in in 1990 you'd do pretty well in predicting their economic class today.

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So it's a surprise (or indictment of the US) that children raised during the Depression/WWII era, in greater numbers than children raised in the 80's, do better than their parents? This should be an obvious outcome.

Now let's discuss what it means to be poor in America.