Comment by gottorf
15 hours ago
The traits in a person that lead them to a life of perpetual poverty are the same traits that make this type of "lottery" winning seem desirable.
15 hours ago
The traits in a person that lead them to a life of perpetual poverty are the same traits that make this type of "lottery" winning seem desirable.
HAHAHAHA
So, how about the dozens of lawyers and doctors in the story? You know, the ones who made 90% of the money and never got charged? The ones who set the whole thing up because they knew they could convince desperate & uneducated people? The ones who orchestrated a murder (the thing that finally got two of them caught)?
What're their "traits?" Did you even read the article?
Traits like ethics? Yes, that was my point.
I'm talking about traits like high time preference and poor impulse control.
Ethics make people live in poverty? That would be news to a lot of people.
It’s a really good article if you read it. The people who got rich were not the poor people.
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‘Pride is all very well, but a sausage is a sausage,’ he said.
- Terry Pratchett
The poor have ethics just like the rest of us. They just can’t afford to keep it.
Pratchett goes into it more when talking about the “proud” poor - which is a real subset of the population.
You can see an example in the rural poor who refuse to take “government cheese”.