re: Escaping Poverty Requires Almost 20 Years With Nearly Nothing Going Wrong

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Escaping poverty is simple unless you have a cognitive or physical condition that prevents you from being productive.



Ridiculous. But many people still believe it. It's a testament to the power of propaganda.

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You have a very low opinion of poor people.

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y, America is now left with what is more or less a two-class system: One small, predominantly white upper class that wields a disproportionate share of money, power, and political influence and a much larger, minority-heavy (but still mostly white) lower class that is all too frequently subject to the first group’s whims.

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fricking white people, they can't even let the minorities have the lower class.

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For minorities especially, this means contending with the racially fraught trends Temin identifies earlier in his book, such as mass incarceration and institutional disinvestment in students, for example. Many cities, which house a disproportionate portion of the black (and increasingly, Latino) population, lack adequate funding for schools. And decrepit infrastructure and lackluster public transit can make it difficult for residents to get out of their communities to places with better educational or work opportunities. Temin argues that these impediments exist by design.

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Wait, I thought the lower class was mostly whites?

Ignoring the middle class is what put the left in the doghouse. And like always, they're going to double down.

To go from poverty to the very tip top upper class probably takes luck and ability in addition to twenty years of nothing going wrong.

But to go from poverty to the very comfortable American middle class takes around three years of simply showing up on time.

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But to go from poverty to the very comfortable American middle class takes around three years of simply showing up on time.

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Show up on time, have a decent attitude, don't steal from your employer and your already in the upper 50% of working Americans.