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This is how we should be selling redistribution (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

Check the YT videos of people who said the same and voluntarily tried to escape a life at the bottom. It's a comforting illusion that one could hustle onself back into 'normal' life. I have seen two attempts, and both gave up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, because N=2 is definitely a statistically significant sample. Especially when it comes to YouTubers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

It's enough to show that escaping poverty is not trivial.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Yes, just like two black people moving in is proof that the neighborhood is going to shit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

I don't have better proof. For me it was enough because I also read the comments and there don't seem to be many success stories.