“Poverty is a personality flaw, not a circumstance”
Agree
- Mindset and habits determine outcomes over time
- Plenty of immigrants arrive broke and succeed
- Personal responsibility separates success from failure
- Victim mentality guarantees permanent poverty
Disagree
- Systemic barriers are overwhelmingly powerful and real
- Blaming victims for oppression is moral cowardice
- Luck and birth circumstances determine almost everything
- Hardest workers are often still poor
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