Comment on The biggest privilege rich people have is to be extremely stupid on purpose.

iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• NONE_dc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  1. I didn’t say that rich people ARE stupid but CAN BE stupid without the consecues that most of us face. That’s is what we call PRIVILEGE

  2. How many rich people you know that are actually geniuses? And how many rich people have you heard who have done the stupidest thing possible? How is the relation between those two?

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• themeatbridge@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  That’s not really how statistics work.

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• irmoz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  No correlation was mentioned

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  • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    The entire first paragraph?

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    • irmoz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Stating that the paragraph exists doesn’t really convince me… are there any specific sentences you can point at, and explain why they imply that rich = stupid and poor = smart? Seems to me they’re just saying that they have the privilege to choose to be stupid, not that being rich means they are stupid.

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      • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I feel as though we are not reading the same thing then. The entire first paragraph lays the groundwork of the assertion that being poor means you end up being smarter. If you come to a different conclusion, then we disagree about that. Have a good day.

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