Quote Originally Posted by KJ5 View Post
Can't let too many people get too poor. The people might wise up, rise up and try to radically reform the system.
What reforms, exactly, would end poverty? Please, wise me up.

I have an anti-poverty recipe: graduate high school, avoid drugs and alcohol, and don't have kids either before age 20 or out of wedlock. People who do those things have almost no chance of living in poverty, including those born into poverty. Unfortunately, those things cannot be imposed on people. The political left would like to take money from "the rich" and give to the poor, but get all outraged at the notion that personal behavior has consequences. While there are external factors, of course, your own lifelong behavior is by far the biggest determining factor in determining whether you end up poor. But it is easier, if far less productive, to just demand other people's shit rather than get your own shit together. Being a liberal: it isn't helpful, but it sure is easy. It absolves people of responsibility for their own actions.