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

• irmoz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

  source

  • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

    source

    • irmoz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It doesn’t say being poor makes you smarter, just that it strongly incentivises you to smarten up, or else your life will be much harder

      source