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[quote=Anonymous][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]

How do people avoid poverty if the minimum wage (which is all you can expect to earn, at least at first, if you have only an HS diploma) will not rent you a two-bedroom in 99 percent of the nation's counties? How do you pay for a trade school if all you're earning is minimum wage?

There are no easy solutions to escaping generational poverty, but your three-step solution above will not suffice. Escaping povery is not ONLY about individual choices. It's also about an economic structure that PERMITS you exit from poverty, and the US doesn't have that right now.

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][/quote]

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