Comments by "Piccalilli Pit" (@piccalillipit9211) on "NBC News"
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@jenalatz3589 - Oh it think you are hurt by them and I think you DO validate yourself by what rando's say on social media or you would not still be bothering me.
Ben Carson is a man who thought supporting Trump, a psychopathic malignant narcissist, was a good idea. That immediately annuls anything that man has to say on any subject.
And no one is advocating for irresponsible behaviour or diminishing the value of the "nuclear family". I'm saying that telling people in poverty to "make better decisions" is idiotic and pointless; their lives dont allow them to make better decisions, their education from their crappy schools and their broken poverty-stricken families did not give them the tools TO make better decisions.
You dont realise how much knowledge and experience you were fortunate to pick up from your family and education that YOU believe is simply a feature of being an adult. To me, a well educated European educated in the "extrapolate first principles" method talking to Americans is like talking to children, and that is not being nasty. Americans are NOT taught critical thinking skills, to me critical thinking is just a function of being grown-up - but it's NOT. You have to learn these things.
The same with saving, investing, banking, budgeting, cooking, nutrition, etc etc etc.
Things you 100% take for granted as just being part of being an adult, other people lack cos they did not have your parents or go to your school.
I grew up in extreme poverty, we ate pigs feet and went to school in black trash bags cos we could not afford coats. I have had a very fortunate life, I have been unbelievably lucky. I could not read or write at 13 and I am a professional author - that's, not me being amazing, that's 1 teacher who taught me to read and write in her own time after school. But I was 48 years old before I saved any money, and I was earning mid-level 6 figures and spending every penny of it...
Why? Cos I was stupid? No - cos I grew up in a family where no one saved money, there was no money to save, we ate nettles. The literal concept was totally alien to me.
And that is what YOU are failing to understand, these people in poverty - they are NOT YOU.
They have a life experience that literally prevents the vast majority of them from even seeing a way out, even contemplating a way out. they cant make better decisions without society INVESTING in them in education and opportunity. And in America, the system is specifically engineered to PREVENT that happening cos you NEED the unwashed sub culture of destitution to keep low level workers terrified of losing their jobs to keep them accepting sh!t wages.
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