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by projektfu 216 days ago
Either:

1. There are solutions to organization and staying on task, that person can use, to successfully manage their lives, or

2. Those solutions actually aren't. They only work for people who would have been organized anyway.

Casting this dichotomy into a different area that I understand better helps me to see what you are saying. I think that it also gives me an idea that this is not a dichotomy. There are solutions to poverty for the individual. The individual must be aware of them, use them, and keep using them, until they are no longer poor. Then, they have to have a system to avoid returning to poverty. The sum total of this is much harder than it seems, so to many people it seems like those solutions cannot work. Sure, to a person for whom these approaches work, who has become broke and homeless, they can do it, but that is cold comfort for those who cannot escape poverty.

Thanks for the insight.