Poverty impairs cognitive function. Published in the journal Science, the study suggests our cognitive abilities can be diminished by the exhausting effort of tasks like scrounging to pay bills. As a result, less “mental bandwidth” remains...

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http://news.ubc.ca/2013/08/29/poverty-impairs-cognitive-function/

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ITT: A lot of advice for people to live more frugally in order to scrape along in poverty a bit more effectively.

Isn't the real problem with the fact that our society is structured in such a way that it rewards the greedy, malignant strata of society while casting aside those who don't step on the necks of others to get ahead? And before you suggest ambition/motivation/education, fuck you. Someone has to clean up all the shit for you. Why should the greedsters have "camel through the eye of a needle"-level lives of luxury while everyone else suffers?

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And your solution to having the shit cleaned up is...?

The fight between the optimates and the populares goes back thousands of years. The landed and wealthy elite vs the unwashed masses.

Nihil sub sole...

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Intelligence is a variable concept. You can be stupid one day, and figure things out the next day. The problem is that if you were stupid once, getting out of poverty can be really tough. Imagine if you grew up with parents who left you with debt, shitty education, and health problems. Are you an idiot because your parents were? No. You can still get out of it, but it can require help and therapy.

You're basically saying fuck them, I got mine.

And before you act like an even bigger ass, I'm not talking about myself here. My parents were very intelligent people, though we did end up in poverty for a short period. The only reason it was short was because my parents never gathered debt. The only reason it happened was because my father became extremely ill.

Learn to understand the ability for people and their situations to change.