John Oliver's new show is doing well.
First hand experience: Some poor people truly suck. Some poor people, especially through the lens of our underdog-nurture evolution, are heroic. In the same way poor are numerous, they are diverse... much more so than the 1%. My kids in the Cameroon classroom were all equally negated by John Oilver's assessment, but they were not equal. Some were smarter and better and harder working students, and measuring them all next to Donald Trump unfairly negates their merit.
My concern with rich people attacking rich people (BAN vs. OECD, John Oliver vs. USA's 1%) is that they attribute more attention to themselves than they do to the relative merits (efforts, study, ingenuity) which the working class all enjoy or suffer. Oops.
Robin Ingenthron I agree. But I also observe that many of the poorest are descending down - with no one else to blame - just as hard as the 1% is striving up. I know this by the number of poor who excel (moderately gaining, or treading water). Grouping poor A to poor B without acknowledging effort (blaming the rich) is an obvious fallacy. If richest 1% C in a decade balloons in weath, leaving Poor A and Poor B in relative dust, that should not negate the essential difference in effort between poor A and B. What distinguishes Poor B from Poor A (effort, desire, ingenuity) also distinguishes Rich Persons C and D (the rich eroding and falling, vs. gaining).1 min · Like
First hand experience: Some poor people truly suck. Some poor people, especially through the lens of our underdog-nurture evolution, are heroic. In the same way poor are numerous, they are diverse... much more so than the 1%. My kids in the Cameroon classroom were all equally negated by John Oilver's assessment, but they were not equal. Some were smarter and better and harder working students, and measuring them all next to Donald Trump unfairly negates their merit.
My concern with rich people attacking rich people (BAN vs. OECD, John Oliver vs. USA's 1%) is that they attribute more attention to themselves than they do to the relative merits (efforts, study, ingenuity) which the working class all enjoy or suffer. Oops.
