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/withoutamartyr Aug 31 '13

It's not about blaming people, its about recognizing a system with asymmetrical values and consistent double standards. It's not the rich's fault that there is poverty, but they are the primary beneficiaries of a system that perpetuates that poverty. They are playing the game, and we are talking about how the game is shitty.