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by ableton
3284 days ago
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If you live in America you can do what you want. You can study hard and get a scholarship to college even if you are really poor as a kid. I know a poor Mexican immigrant who's kids all got college degrees for free. It doesn't really matter if you grow up poor (in America). There are many people who are very rich precisely because being poor as kids drove them to work hard. What does matter is if you grew up in a stable family. If you don't have that you get really whacked out paychologically, and it can affect people for their whole lives. People look to the government to tax and spend to solve social problems. However, oftentimes the government is the cause of such problems in the first place. For example, we see a huge number of people in prison today. Well studies show that 60% of people in prison grew up without a father in the home. The government today actively promotes divorce and children out of wedlock through paying single mothers. The "compassion" has raised a generation of young people who are lost. America has more money than ever but our families are falling apart, torn up by divorce and pornography, and our young people are paying the price. The government should focus on supporting strong families, and you would watch and see so many major social problems evaporate. I know that I am where I am today because of my dads positive influence on me. Without his support I would be nowhere right now. Every kid needs a loving family. It's time the government starts trying to promote that. Of course in Quatar they have serious human rights issues that need to be resolved. I'm just talking about in America. |
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I know many upper middle class kids who got college degrees for free (parental scholarship).
> It doesn't really matter if you grow up poor (in America)
Like I said above, and the author claims, it does seem to matter quite a bit if you grow up poor or not poor.
> There are many people who are very rich precisely because being poor as kids drove them to work hard.
There are probably many more who are rich precisely because being rich as kids drove them to being rich as adults.
> However, oftentimes the government is the cause of such problems in the first place.
Oftentimes you drive on the roads the government provisioned, visit the parks past presidents enacted, live in the security our GI WW2 vets created, so on and so on.