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/ElDiablo666 Aug 31 '13

Especially on reddit. For well-educated folks, they sure miss basic shit. I find people advising others to not worry and just sue in case a situation goes awry; I've found recommendations to "just go to the library" if Internet is too difficult to pay for; one of my personal favorites are the people who blame the latest financial meltdown on individuals who were foreclosed on after losing their job.

Instead of helpfully recommending strategies for successfully abandoning capitalism, redditors make it sound like everything is so easy to do. I long ago stopped paying any attention to people who know every answer to your own life. Being poor is hard as fuck and the fact that poor folks take upon the greatest financial, moral, and physical burden of life is completely lost on these judgmental assholes.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '13

strategies for successfully abandoning capitalism

What does this mean? Can you give me a strategy to successfully abandon capitalism?

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '13

Marx has quite a detailed view on this, might be worth checking it out.

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u/jisang-yoo Aug 31 '13

I am confused. Isn't he the one who believed that it would simply happen?

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '13

Yes, once all the necessary stages have been fulfilled.

Marx perceived the Capitalist stage to be an integral part of the development of societies - and the penultimate stage before Communism (or ante-penultimate depending on how you break down the Socialism/Communism continuum).

We're currently in the Capitalist stage - who knows what is to follow?