Poverty is chaotic. It's depressing, and distracting, and exhausting. It eats at one's concentration. It encourages nihilism, and fatalism, and addiction as a means of escape...
One of the most pernicious critiques of those in poverty is to imagine that these people have the luxury to reason about their lives and prospects with the same gentility as someone well-fed, warm, socially connected and amply remunerated...
It is the elective cognitive bias of a privilege that chooses spite over reflection. That claims personal credit for its own good fortune with the same selectivity that it denies mitigation for the misfortunes of others. A thug defending a statue to bogus virtue.//
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