Reporter Returns To Her Arkansas Home To Find Why Inequality Is Complicated

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Reporter Returns To Her Arkansas Home To Find Why Inequality Is Complicated

 

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There wasn’t a single factor that locked people into lives of low expectations and results. Instead, there were many. Traditions of thinking that limitations were natural. School guidance counselors and families who assumed kids would never get much of anywhere because no one would be able to afford the cost of a big-name university, even though such schools often had far more in financial aid available. It was only a fluke that got her into a pre-college program at Barnard through a scholarship she hadn’t known existed, and only found out when she called to say she couldn’t afford to attend.

 

A decent article that appears to be trying to look at inequality with actual thought.  I see much of this article as being true, and if we look at areas where communities struggle....it adds up.

 

 

[JustinCharge 2,397]

The single biggest issue is the “poverty trap”. Poor people tend to think its shameful to ask for help.  They take pride in figuring things out alone. So every generation of poor people make the same basic errors due to no shared knowledge base. 
wealthy people get that no one can go it alone so they collaborate, join clubs etc. 

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52 minutes ago, JustinCharge said:

The single biggest issue is the “poverty trap”. Poor people tend to think its shameful to ask for help.  They take pride in figuring things out alone. So every generation of poor people make the same basic errors due to no shared knowledge base. 
wealthy people get that no one can go it alone so they collaborate, join clubs etc. 

I think it is rather complicated, and its not recent. We can trace the roots of cultural decay in segments of society back to the origins of the nation.  From active subjugation and exploitation, to subtle and conniving actions and then into misplaced "corrective" actions that just made things worse. 

Time and again, it has been government......over and over we see government thinking its got the answers, and it never does.  Government, IMHO, is a toddler with an overactive pituitary gland walking around aimlessly in a water park trying to catch spurts of water.....

Government is ruthless power, both pointedly harmful to the average person and pointedly beneficial to those who manage to secure positions within it. 

[League Champion 1,911]

Parenting, not every kid has one (or 2). 

Without guidance who's there to help? And don't tell me that there's not a problem, especially in the African American communities. 

[seafoam1 3,022]

People don't need big time universities to be successful in life. They need desire and morality. 

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8 minutes ago, League Champion said:

Parenting, not every kid has one (or 2). 

Without guidance who's there to help? And don't tell me that there's not a problem, especially in the African American communities. 

Prior to the civil rights act in the 1060's the AA dual-parents rate was rather high, so what happened? The government wanted to give hand outs to portray itself as viruous, and in the process fomented single-parent homes in that community.  Over time it got worse and worse, so that now the art of parenting has been nearly lost. 

[JustinCharge 2,397]

26 minutes ago, RLLD said:

I think it is rather complicated, and its not recent. We can trace the roots of cultural decay in segments of society back to the origins of the nation.  From active subjugation and exploitation, to subtle and conniving actions and then into misplaced "corrective" actions that just made things worse. 

Time and again, it has been government......over and over we see government thinking its got the answers, and it never does.  Government, IMHO, is a toddler with an overactive pituitary gland walking around aimlessly in a water park trying to catch spurts of water.....

Government is ruthless power, both pointedly harmful to the average person and pointedly beneficial to those who manage to secure positions within it. 

Well if you want to talk about the roots of decay, it is an uncomfortable subject but it began with FDR and his child labor laws.  Idle hands are the devils plaything.  A child working hard builds essential character and know-how to grow into a functional adult.  So the way to destroy a society is to first ban child labor.  Make them sit idle and dumb to real world problems for 20 years.   They will start to distrust their parents and grow spoiled.  Its not a coincidence that hippie communist culture emerged 20-30 after child labor laws were enacted.  That was the plan by FDR. 
 

amish children work hard which is key to them growing up as productive members.  You will also notice people on the left attack the amish for this, falsely claiming it is child abuse.  This is because the left knows how critical it is to raise spoiled children to spread communism.