After the biggest rise in poverty in 30 years, man has taken to social media to explain that people shouldn’t worry about not having enough money to heat their homes or put food on the table,…
Oof. Growing up poor can damage you for life, there’s so much research on this (easy to google scholar). Poverty trauma is real, and takes a while to grow out of even if you “make it”. There are people who get lucky, and they like to pretend they made it out of poverty because of some talent or whatever, but the hard truth no one admits is that there are lots of talented people who languish in the quicksand of poverty, and die in obscurity. I hate the meritocracy myth, it’s such a damaging fantasy.
Oof. Growing up poor can damage you for life, there’s so much research on this (easy to google scholar). Poverty trauma is real, and takes a while to grow out of even if you “make it”. There are people who get lucky, and they like to pretend they made it out of poverty because of some talent or whatever, but the hard truth no one admits is that there are lots of talented people who languish in the quicksand of poverty, and die in obscurity. I hate the meritocracy myth, it’s such a damaging fantasy.