[moduspol]

> So did I, but I don't regard someone a failure who deserves misery if they did not 'gather necessary skills'.

Back to the straw-manning, I suppose. I never made those claims.

> There are a lot of reasons why someone might not be able to move past minimum wage work in life, not all of them their fault. Even if it is and they threw away every opportunity they ever had does that mean they deserve a lifetime of hardship?

Nobody deserves a lifetime of hardship, but that doesn't morally obligate others to provide a middle class lifestyle for them.

> Our society provides trillions to oligarchs like Bezos. If we're OK with that then we should be OK with giving more to those who need it most even if they dont work "hard enough".

Nobody questions your ability to give as much as you'd like. It becomes questionable when you start trying to enforce this "morality" on others, but I think you know that, and that's why you frame it the way you did.

[ionised]

> Back to the straw-manning, I suppose. I never made those claims.

Not overtly no. You just heavily implied that anyone working for minimum wage or even simply earning less than you are has somehow lived a life of bad decisions and moral inferiority.