Cloud_Disconnected t1_j5r9zdx wrote on January 25, 2023 at 12:26 AM

Reply to comment by Fuselol in This is for friends and neighbors. by [deleted]

>People have options and freedom to do what they want.

Being poor reduces your options, and often the options you have left all suck.

> There’s better options than that what you’re providing.

Of course. I wasn't trying to provide an exhaustive list of all the available options, I was making the point that sometimes people don't have better options.

Fuselol t1_j5re52b wrote on January 25, 2023 at 12:56 AM

Being poor reduces your options, yes. Making excuses isn’t an option when you’re that limited.

From the exhaustive list you could have made you pointed out the least viable/productive, makes sense. You’re the voice of doubt that no one needs in their life. Good luck to anyone around you.

Cloud_Disconnected t1_j5rj0uw wrote on January 25, 2023 at 1:31 AM

> From the exhaustive list you could have made you pointed out the least viable/productive, makes sense.

Yes. I assumed that the reader would take the examples you gave as implicit and not viable for the reasons I later explained. This credit I extended to the reader was clearly not warranted in all cases, as you have shown.

And good luck to you, should you ever find yourself in adverse circumstances. I hope those around you will show more understanding and compassion to you than you seem to show to others in the case that you might have to make the sort of difficult decisions many people face every day.

Fuselol t1_j5s18ss wrote on January 25, 2023 at 3:47 AM

I was in said circumstances for the majority of my life. It’s how I’ve formed my opinions.

Cloud_Disconnected t1_j5s68uo wrote on January 25, 2023 at 4:29 AM

As was I. I try to treat people the way I wish I had been treated. That's not to say you don't. For all I know you responded to the bootstraps mentality favorably, and so that's what you believe is helpful to other people.

Don't think that I'm saying that people aren't accountable for their choices. If someone can make a better choice, they should. But sometimes they can't.