MTZehvor said:
It literally isn't, and I'm a little skeptical of whether you've ever studied poverty if you truly believe being poor is a choice in the majority of cases. Many poor people aren't that gifted. Many poor children never develop basic learning skills that can shape the rest of their lives. Many poor families can't afford college, meaning their kids are likely never going to get any sort of high paying job. Poor kids are far more likely to have abusive parents, drastically affecting their ability to interact with people (and hurting their chances of interviewing well for a job or anything similar). Poorer families are much more likely to require aid from newly working kids, meaning less time can be devoted to studying, and preventing them from saving as much as they could when they get out into the world. Poorer children are also less likely to learn basic financial planning. You're correct that there is no rule that every single poor person will always remain poor. There is an extremely tangible relationship, however, and you're only fooling yourself if you think the reason why 70% of poor children remain poor throughout their life is just because "they chose to be poor." |
You know exactly what I mean by "they chose to be poor". A person even in their young life makes thousands of little choices that even add up and affect how their life will might play out. As they grow older, they have millions of possible choices they can make that can drastically alter their life. A person is not stuck in their situation and most of the time, they have the option to change it. Those two girls used the cards that life dealt them and changed their fate by those little choices.
A person can't choose the situation they are born into or if they will get sick later on but for the most part, it's their life and they can choose to do what they want with it. That's includes staying in their situation or trying to better themselves.
