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0 pointsmason24010y ago0 comments

I think the cause and effect are reversed. Having destructive financial habits are going to cause you to have "life that sucks." Whether it's buying too many lotto tickets, smoking, driving buzzed drunk on a regular basis, ect.

I grew up in low class area/family and saw that there is a pretty clear difference between a lower class and middle class mindset.

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mosquito24210y ago· 2 in thread

I think it's reasonable to argue that it's less of an either/or and more of a self-defeating cycle.

Lower class life -> desire to escape -> worse habits -> lower class life

and so on.

zardo10y ago

I think it has more to do with society being class segregated, and the habits that could raise your class (or raise your chances of getting out anyways) are not the social norms in the lower classes.

Then desire to escape step isn't even necessary.

gozur8810y ago

There's a confirmation bias in that kind of logic, since people who start out poor and work their way into the middle class (or higher) don't "count" any more.

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