{"id":9660,"date":"2023-07-05T20:27:27","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T19:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=9660"},"modified":"2023-07-05T20:55:16","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T19:55:16","slug":"socio-economics-why-do-the-poor-make-poor-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=9660","title":{"rendered":"SOCiO-ECONOMiCS:  Why Do The Poor Make \u2026 Poor Decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-ted wp-block-embed-ted wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rutger Bregman: Poverty isn&#039;t a lack of character; it&#039;s a lack of cash\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/rutger_bregman_poverty_isn_t_a_lack_of_character_it_s_a_lack_of_cash\" sandbox=\"allow-popups allow-scripts allow-same-origin\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>TED talk by Rutger Bregman <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don\u2019t often watch TED Talks. I don\u2019t know why, but I kind of took against them, early on. I think the reason I took against them was thanks to watching CEOs of large corporations doing the same sort of schtick. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It all seemed a bit vain and egomaniacal, and there was a whiff of evangelical smugness about the format. Look at me up here, a picture of success; sit at my feet, and hope that maybe you\u2019ll pick up a few gems, the crystallised diamond beads of wisdom that drip off me!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The truth is, however, that the describe actually watched or listened to, have usually been quite good. Or at least quite interesting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This popped up in my FB feed. I guess FB\u2019s AI has learned me quite well. To my own surprise I decided to watch a bit. I was all too ready to dislike both speaker and subject. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But as I listened, I thought what he said sounded, well\u2026 sound. When he directly contradicts one of Margaret Thatcher\u2019s basic tenets (\u2018poverty is a character defect\u2019*), I start to like the guy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This TED talk sounds rather like the prologue to a book length argument.  And as such it feels like it lacks in depth and detail. But the basic idea, the basic argument, seems both cogent and &#8211; rather surprisingly, to me &#8211; quite uplifting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The moral positivity such a philosophy requires, in a world currently ruled by the amoral heirs to Thatcherite strains of ideology &#8211; the \u2018I\u2019m alright, Jack\u2019 and \u2018dog eat dog\u2019 mobs &#8211; is refreshing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* Good God, Thatcher was an appalling idiot. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TED talk by Rutger Bregman I don\u2019t often watch TED Talks. I don\u2019t know why, but I kind of took against them, early on. I think the reason I took against them was thanks to watching CEOs of large corporations doing the same sort of schtick. It all seemed a bit vain and egomaniacal, and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=9660\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SOCiO-ECONOMiCS:  Why Do The Poor Make \u2026 Poor Decisions&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-2vO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9660"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9661,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9660\/revisions\/9661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}