Comment on Pay Day with demographer Liz Allen: 'Poverty grants perspective that can never be bought'
naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks agoSure whatever if you become a parasite but very, very, few people ever realistically get the choice to do so. Like long before you even have to decide between embracing evil and getting shares/property/whatever you need food, clothes, shelter, and medicine. It’s completely luck.
If you get that chance early, or if you are an heir or whatever to fortune kids are easy. If not kids are hard.
Having children is in no way related to the luckness of it.
Ilandar@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
But the argument being made here is not about whether raising children is easy or difficult; it’s about whether “money is luck”. Your life choices affect how much money you have. That is a fundamental truth.
naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Are you being bad faith or genuinely confused here?
Ilandar@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
You’ll need to be more specific with your questioning.
naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Do we agree that choices are not free? That the set of choices available to someone is determined by precededing moments, a chain of which extends back well beyond anything a person could be held not merely responsible for but indeed capable of having any influence over at all?