Comment by blonde_ocean
5 years ago
Good Q. I think it’s a nuanced distinction. Helping too much can too often lead to a lack of empowerment, IMO. The idea that you can’t help yourself, so you must be led along by another as if you were a child. I think empowerment requires helping, but helping through “nudges,” if that makes sense
In the context of a system where it's almost impossible to lose money above a certain point and almost impossible to make money below a certain point (edit: without doing something reckless, which often happens).. No this does not make sense to me.
You may be being slightly hyperbolic, but in either case I would doubt that is a majority-held opinion.
> In the context of a system where it's almost impossible to lose money above a certain point and almost impossible to make money below a certain point
Whether you believe we live in such a system seems like a matter of opinion and outlook.
I wonder if there's a correlation there, where for some people they think that offering any help is by definition paternalistic? "As if they were a child", as in believing that only children need help.