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- d'Zhuoy is a 41 year old woman from Ex-Urbs, New York, USA.
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"All my thoughts, they come in pairs. / I will, I won't, I doubt, I don't, / I'm not surprised but I never feel quite prepared." --Bright Eyes ...---... "When you see yourself doing something badly and nobody's bothering to tell you anymore, that's a very bad place to be. Your critics are your ones telling you they still love you and care." --Randy Pausch, "Last Lecture"
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Chasing the American Dream with $25 & The American, A Magazine of Ideas
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May 9, 4:43pm
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•http://www.american.com/archive/2008/...
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What a specious little shit this author is. This college graduate played poor for a year and succeeded despite not using his connections or his college credentials the whole time. His thesis is that people can pull themselves up by the bootstraps if they are as virtuous and self-abnegating as this product of the upper middle class. He concludes that poverty is not cyclical.
The problem with his thesis is this faulty logic: The indigent don't have the right attitude to succeed, even with the plentiful government support they receive. Middle-class people come from a culture of expectations and don't require government intervention to make their way to the American dream. Therefore it is virtue, not government support, that enables the American dream. Thus, poor people, because they aren't raised in the culture of success, don't have that virtue. QED: It is their own fault that they remain poor.
Now this, to me, is the very definition of cyclical poverty. This guy is probably a Freeper troll or some other flavor of insufferable prick.
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