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Originally posted by Nathans_Dad
The difference between us is that you seem to think that someone who fails in our society was never able to succeed in the first place.
But I patently reject this notion that the failures in our society were genetically programmed to fail.
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No, that person might have succeeded very well and then fell upon hard times. The group is in flux. Earlier, I also said I don't think they are preprogrammed. I believe in free will. I believe a change in environment can help. But, some have traits that become predominant and lead to failure at some time, no matter how hard they try.
So at any one time there are a group of poor, we can provide assistance to them to reinforce those behaviors and traits to help them succeed. But as some move up, some move down. There will always be a group of poor, and I have said it will not and should not be a definable group by race or ethnicity.
My thrust has been to alter the view that we have of them. It just isn't about how hard they try.
And as I have said earlier, the current welfare system does not do this function. It has reinforced behaviors detrimental to success.