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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Privilege is just a loaded word

Apparently it's privilege that instead of going on fancy vacations and spending on cars we lived more frugally so we could afford to live in a better school district

Apparently it's privilege to encourage your kids to work hard, study and get good grades

I just call bs on all of it

Doing those things is common sense and if more folks would do it we wouldn't be having these discussions[/quote]

Apparently it's privilege to go to school/military/trade/skill/job then get married and TEHN have kids once you can afford them

Again if people did that poverty would almost disappear in a generation[/quote]

Correct. It's been shown that all one needs to do to avoid being in poverty is finish high school, get a job, and get married before having children. If you do those things in that order, it's not even a matter of "waiting until you can afford them"...as you will be able to afford the children you have in that circumstance without being in poverty. (I understand this is a low bar...most people *want* to live well above the poverty level, and so waiting until you've saved a little money before having kids would be idea, but this isn't addressing that.) This is what will secure people a position ABOVE the poverty line. Just those three things. Period.[/quote]

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