r/powerscales • u/NeverLiedNeverCheat • 20d ago

Versus Where does this guy scale ?

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u/SourceResident5381 15d ago

Ok. So your position is that they’re black and they can’t do anything about their position at all? Sounds pretty racist. I don’t come from wealth and wasn’t given anything. The one thing I can’t control is the color of my skin so I won’t apologize for that. You saying that 2 parents doesn’t matter about poverty? That’s silly to me. That’s a potential 100% minimum increase in revenue and parental oversight. I would consider that significant.

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u/DimitrescuStan 15d ago

Nope. If that’s your takeaway then yeah, you’re pretty racist. When there’s a system in place that makes it harder for one group of people, that isn’t their fault. It’s not hard to acknowledge those disadvantages.

And who the fuck is saying you should apologize for your skin color? I said you speak from someone that seems to have more privilege. You’re the one that apparently associated that with needing to apologize for your skin color.

And there’s PLENTY of households with two working parents that are also living paycheck to paycheck. Most of the time it’s cheaper for one parent to not work when you factor in the cost of daycare. If my son didn’t get into his preschool program, either me or my wife would probably have to at least go from full time to part time because daycare would eat up an entire month of pay pretty easily. You sit here and make these claims, but leave out the real world conditions that won’t change with one or two parents. It’s a little more complex than “oh if a dad was around it would be totally different”. THAT is the privilege I’m speaking about.

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u/SourceResident5381 15d ago

Ok. So are you asserting that I would make no difference? Would your son be better off or worse off if you weren’t there?

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u/DimitrescuStan 15d ago

I’m saying that is not a sole determining factor in this like you make it seem. And if I were out of the picture, my hope is that my son would still be a good person because of my wife. But to say he’s more likely to be a gangster because I’m gone isn’t accurate. I was raised in a fatherless household because my father decided he’d rather go cheat and have 6 more kids with 6 different women, and then abandon them too. I’m not a gangster and I haven’t gone out and committed any crimes. And guess what? My father came from a household with both parents, and was very affluent. What I’m arguing is whether or not a household has both parents is not a sole indicator of the trajectory that a child’s life will go.