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minus-squarefrostysauce@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·3 days agoThis comment has big “The poor can’t be trusted with money” vibes.
minus-squareExtantHuman@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 days agoWe need better financial education. On top of better wages It’s not surprising that people who don’t have money never have an opportunity to figure out how to handle money properly.
minus-squareMacN'Cheezuslinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down9·3 days agoThe vast majority of them can’t. Those who can be trusted with it generally don’t stay poor for long.
minus-squareplyth@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-23 days agoCheck the YT videos of people who said the same and voluntarily tried to escape a life at the bottom. It’s a comforting illusion that one could hustle onself back into ‘normal’ life. I have seen two attempts, and both gave up.
minus-squareMacN'Cheezuslinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down2·3 days agoYeah, because N=2 is definitely a statistically significant sample. Especially when it comes to YouTubers.
minus-squareplyth@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 days agoIt’s enough to show that escaping poverty is not trivial.
minus-squareMacN'Cheezuslinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·3 days agoYes, just like two black people moving in is proof that the neighborhood is going to shit.
minus-squareplyth@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoI don’t have better proof. For me it was enough because I also read the comments and there don’t seem to be many success stories.
minus-squareMacN'Cheezuslinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·2 days agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias
minus-squareplyth@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoCould be. What I wanted to say is that the sample size is bigger than two if the community cannot come up with successful bootstrapping stories.
This comment has big “The poor can’t be trusted with money” vibes.
We need better financial education. On top of better wages
It’s not surprising that people who don’t have money never have an opportunity to figure out how to handle money properly.
The vast majority of them can’t. Those who can be trusted with it generally don’t stay poor for long.
Check the YT videos of people who said the same and voluntarily tried to escape a life at the bottom. It’s a comforting illusion that one could hustle onself back into ‘normal’ life. I have seen two attempts, and both gave up.
Yeah, because N=2 is definitely a statistically significant sample. Especially when it comes to YouTubers.
It’s enough to show that escaping poverty is not trivial.
Yes, just like two black people moving in is proof that the neighborhood is going to shit.
I don’t have better proof. For me it was enough because I also read the comments and there don’t seem to be many success stories.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias
Could be. What I wanted to say is that the sample size is bigger than two if the community cannot come up with successful bootstrapping stories.
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