A global study led by a researcher at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and published in the journal Scientific Reports finds that economic inequality on a social level cannot be explained by bad choices among the poor nor by good decisions among the rich. Poor decisions were the same across all income groups, including for people who have overcome poverty.
So youre telling me we live in a finite society whose collective performance is dictated not by individuals “pulling themselves up by the bootstraps” but by the very economy created by the community? And poor people arent all evil savants and rich people too? No, my good decisions mean I’M a better person than my neighbors! MY selfishness is the problem then? No! They should just get a better job! Ad infinitum the human condition.