[scottedwards]

yeah agree, plus not sure I believe that poverty reduces ambition

[AnimalMuppet]

It may. You don't dream of becoming president; you dream of having enough money to have both an apartment and food. You have just as much ambition, but the ambition is for smaller things. You therefore are not threatening the political power of those who have it.

[the_sleaze9]

It isn't poverty that reduces ambition, it's that poverty has crushingly enormous cognitive overhead.