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cloakandswagger | 5 years ago

I question and reject the conclusion of any such study based on my own experience.

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mywittyname|5 years ago

Your thesis has an implication that is readily checked:

If living poverty makes people more industrious, then people who grew up in poverty should have better outcomes than people who never have.

And that's pretty well proven to by false. In fact, there's a name for all of the negative effects of living in poverty that perpetuate a life in poverty: the cycle of poverty.

chickenpotpie|5 years ago

You’re rejecting the conclusion of studies that you haven’t even read?

dragonwriter|5 years ago

Anecdote > data?

cloakandswagger|5 years ago

Personal observations and reasoning > crooked, conclusion-oriented "studies"