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Skeptic. Well-honed BS detector. Strongly dislikes fascists.

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@iey0beeW @QuizmasterGAAve @cafreiman Some rise, some fall, most remain in the class of their birth. Upward mobility is a function of talent, luck, and structural opportunity. As a culture, we’ve always celebrated the “rags to riches” story despite its statistical rarity (see: dominant ideology of individualism).

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@manxlab AJ?

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@iey0beeW @QuizmasterGAAve @cafreiman Mostly they do! And that’s the point. Class immobility is statistically more common than class mobility.

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@iey0beeW @QuizmasterGAAve @cafreiman Ah, the old “culture of poverty” theory (Oscar Lewis). Largely debunked. Culture matters, but structure is primary in a causal sense.

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@iey0beeW @QuizmasterGAAve @cafreiman Are you arguing that this class specific time preference is a genetic trait of poor people?

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@iey0beeW @QuizmasterGAAve @cafreiman I hope you understand that observing a few of your neighbors is not a valid empirical basis for making generalizations about societies.

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@iey0beeW @QuizmasterGAAve @cafreiman Explaining poverty by invoking the traits of individual poor people (while popular) isn’t accurate. Poverty is primarily structural. The fact that the US has more of it than other affluent democracies is a function of politics.

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@iey0beeW @QuizmasterGAAve @cafreiman I suspect it’s a tad more complicated than that. But, most people prefer simple answers to complex questions.

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@iey0beeW @QuizmasterGAAve @cafreiman Choices. lol.

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@TolentinoTeach Discipline

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@_Credible_Hulk Ideology is a helleva drug!

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@QuizmasterGAAve @cafreiman Are they healthier? Read a book.

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@cafreiman Yes, it’s The End of History all over again. Nothing to see here….

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@_oliviasmith213

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@DaddyBoyNYC @esrtweet @blog_supplement Though SAT scores are strongly sensitive to test-prep/coaching introducing confounding by SES and weakening any true correlation with IQ.

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@CoachSwit Of course cold climate HS players are at a disadvantage. Look at the rosters of the top 25 D1 college programs.

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@esrtweet @blog_supplement Evidence for your high IQ?

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@BomAstig @SteveLovesAmmo Inconvenient facts are a thing.

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@LVR_HeatCulture @KingJohnTX *you’re

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@danellisona Thanks to average peoples’ tax dollars.