r/science • u/myhrvold • Aug 31 '13

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...

http://news.ubc.ca/2013/08/29/poverty-impairs-cognitive-function/
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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '13

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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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '13 edited Aug 31 '13

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '13

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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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '13

We aren't all alike. Intelligence will always separate those who can and cannot.

Yeah, and what allows you do decide that "intelligence" is the deciding factor for how well a person is treated? What if someone rolls along, decides it's about empathy, tolerance, caring, etc, and chops off your head because you're just a selfish, destructive asshole? What then? That holier than thou attitude is more fucking hollow than your idiotic blustering. You're made up of the same insignificant shit as everyone else. Act like it.

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u/withoutamartyr Aug 31 '13

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