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

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Marx, capital spells it out nicely.

most people, even in usa, work in a place provided by another person.

all but the rare ones are devastated when the means of production is shipped to the Orient.

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IQ we can't change, so there's not much we can do other than insuring there are jobs for that group of people

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Jordan Peterson fan?

I believe he had an interview or talk on this where he said it's a big issue, the lack of job opportunities for the fixed number of low IQ individuals in society. He said the percentage of low IQ individuals hasn't really changed over time throughout society but in the past there were more manual labor jobs available for those people to fill. Technology has replaced a lot of those positions leaving the low IQ members of society to have to live off of the government, crime or under a bridge.


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Found it.

YouTube - Jordan Peterson IQ and the job market

This reads democrats.

#Nb4takethisshitetothepb

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Mental illness

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This is becoming a lazy catch-all for explaining why assholes act like assholes.

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Now obviously depression and physical disabilities are not exclusive to poor folks, but I’ve seen it at the beginning of so many of these people’s posts that I sometimes question whether there’s a script or something.

I don’t know what we can really do. I mean, it sucks that some people are smart and healthy and able to succeed while others aren’t. But I don’t really know the answer to that problem.

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There is an answer but nobody's going to like it and it may not be fit for a proper, modern, compassionate Society.

The answer is natural selection or eugenics, depending on your flavor. Organic or non-organic.

We have protected the weak and allowed them to procreate, passing on both their bad genetics and their poor parenting skills. In fact, they're outbreeding the desirable members of society and so society as a whole continues to erode.

I think the best solution is to probably pay them not to procreate. In other words, and this isn't going to be looked upon very favorably either but at least it involves a modicum of liberty, pay the undesirable members of society a lump or recurring sum payment to get fixed. We do just the opposite. We pay them to have kids. The more kids they have the more it pays.

Abortion was actually a step in the right direction. It prevented a lot of unwanted pregnancies that would have created more undesirable adults. It's exponential. My fellow conservatives aren't going to like this but abortion has slowed the erosion of society. We'd be far worse off if those millions of abortions hadn't occurred. You may not like it but those are the facts.

Yes.

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We dont have enough to do. So boredom leads to getting into trouble.


Back in the day when the whole family had to work the farm at all hours, there was no time to get into trouble. You were too busy or too tired.

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I second this. I always tell people that we as the human race are bored. Just a few thousand years ago we were spending the entire day trying to survive.

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Well what causes poverty?

Bad decisions

Why are people still in poverty?

Keep making bad decisions

Why?

Because government rewards them and punishes those who make correct decisions

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yeesh

read this again and tell me how this makes any logical sense

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Education levels, crime, bastard kids, etc. All the trashy things.

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at least one of these isn’t true

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A new study found that, in the last few decades, rich black kids have been more likely to go to prison than poor white kids. A trio of researchers from the New School and Duke University examined data from 1979 onward and discovered that about 2.7 of the poorest white young people went to prison, while nearly 10 percent of the affluent young black people studied ended up incarcerated at some point.

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No matter what their parents’ income level, black men do worse than white men on average. Black men born into families at the 75th percentile of the income distribution wind up, on average, 12 percentiles below white men born into equally affluent families. When you consider that there are far fewer black families at the top of the income distribution than white families, the inequities showcased here become even starker.

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Black men raised in the top 1 percent — by millionaires — were as likely to be incarcerated as white men raised in households earning about $36,000.”

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