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by robocat 1721 days ago
Most people I know seem to believe in a mixture of personal responsibility and circumstantial luck.

There is an abundance of evidence that those born into a poor family do not gain the same opportunities as those born into a wealthy family.

Blaming the poor for their condition has a long tradition. Blaming shop-workers for their lack of “personal responsibility” seems to be the current thinking of many selfish people: “it is their choice to be poor”.

Note that I find your writing to be disturbingly black and white thinking - absolutely a signal of a toxic mindset to me. “Nobody wants” and “everyone is” just show your own prejudices and are completely non-factual.

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