TIL: Poverty in Japan

[timelets]

Many conservatives in the U.S. believe that poverty is mainly a result of bad personal decisions. African-Americans are especially likely to be blamed for their own poverty -- an attitude that some political scientists call racial resentment.
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So Japanese people are doing everything right -- eschewing violence, avoiding drugs, working hard and not having kids out of wedlock. They are following the conservative prescription, as well as or better than any other developed country in the world. And yet still, many of them are poor. This suggests that there is something very wrong with the conservative theory of poverty.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-07-30/u-s-economy-personal-bad-behavior-isn-t-what-causes-poverty

Comments

[gracheeha]

Спасибо за ссылку, очень интересная статья!

[timelets]

Пожалуйста. Этот автор хорошо пишет и опирается на данные.

[chuka_lis]

конечно, что-то сней не так. зато она удообная, особенно для тех, кто "не бедный".

[timelets]

Это вечный вопрос мотивации и возможностей. Для не бедных он точно так же важен, но они лучше встроены в структуру, которая помогает при недостатке мотивации.