Lets take some numbers and opine about poor people. I'm sure a few paragraphs can cover the social complexities and giant boulder on-top of soul feeling that is poverty.
Edit: No I am not going to do an extensive write-up myself.
Try out this experiment, be born into a poor county where you produce actual goods like automobiles. Then watch as your family has their pensions attacked by blood thirty wealthy fucks that have think-tanks put out articles in Fox News and WSJ how your family doesn't deserve the monies contracted to them. How the unions they belong to, made to counter the ultra-monied's inherent power, are "Killing America™."
All this while putting 10 hours shifts to cover you and most likely your elder's bills. This is what the author is writing about, yet twists it into some dry cut about why the poor don't work because they lack incentive or are 'economically rational.'
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What's that? You can't be reborn into poverty to experience from childhood on up? OK don't bloody write about it then.