I mean it would be impossible for me to account for every failure of failed person in life right? Nor would I want to hear all of their excuse ridden stories. All the bad multiple kids people can't afford decisions per person. All the quit job with no plan B decisions. All the borrow high interest money that they can't afford to pay back but get into debt decisions. No, I cannot account "for all bad decisions everywhere". I do think however it is "common sense" as you put it, that more poor people make worse decisions. I highly,
highly,
highly doubt that the majority of people in poverty are in it due to their
amazing decision making.
What you can
prove, you or I, is what actions lead to success, and what inaction lead to failure. This can be quantified and critiqued. Even then however, there are tons of statistics that support the fact that low income people waste the most money on lotto tickets, cigarettes, etc, which points to bad spending habits in regards to their income level. Now that I am typing it, if I am not mistaken 70% of cigarette smoking is from the low income community. These are things, among many other things, that point to a terrible mindset as it doesn't make much sense to be buying cigarettes if you can barely afford your life. If the statistics were "low income communities only buy 20% of cigarette sales" maybe you would have some sort of argument here.
Either way, let's try this one last time since you may just be missing my entire point, and have yet to counter point with anything relevant. Let's use college as an example as before since we are on subject. Stop me where I am wrong.
We have established statistically that those who do graduate from college, make higher levels of income correct? This in turn, moves more people, much more people, with college degrees out of the poverty line by income, since the definition of poverty itself is based around your income level. Correct? Ok great.
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/hsgec.nr0.htm
^ Here we can see that people who didn't go to college are set up on a lesser path, but even moreso people who dropped out of high school are at a horrible labor participation rate, with the unemployment rate almost 3x as high compared to students
in college at the same age. Ok great.
http://federalsafetynet.com/us-poverty-threshold.html
^ Note the poverty threshold by income per household size. Ok great.
http://federalsafetynet.com/us-poverty-statistics.html
^ In regards to U.S. poverty, points to consider are as follows.
-Adults not working - 31%
-Adults without a high school diploma - 25%
-Adults with college degree or higher - 5%
-Full time working adults - 2%
Here we can see massive gaps that even the blind can observe. With this information, we are well aware that the decision to attend and graduate college should be a high priority to avoid financial hardship. While there are exceptions, the statistics prove that obtaining a college degree will lead to higher income and success. Realistically and objectively speaking, we can trust that it is not a coincidence that only 5% of college graduates are in poverty. Realistically and objectively speaking, we can also trust that the majority of the 25% of people in poverty with no high school diploma are not there due to their
amazing decision making. Right? Ok. This would mean that, *gasps*, bad decisions much more often than not lead to bad results.
This deserves it's own line.
Bad decision making more often than not leads to bad results.
Choosing to not go to college, in the face of so much supporting evidence that it is more beneficial for your long term growth, is a bad decision. If you were irresponsible having kids too early or before you were financially ready (yes watching your kid(s) is no excuse for failing in life) or getting into trouble with the law (yes getting arrested is no excuse for failing in life), and skipped college, your bad decision making lead to bad results. If you dropped outta high school (yes, not graduating is no excuse for failing in life), you made a bad decision. Etc 100x.
What is your statistical fact based counter argument to the conclusion of this analysis, that bad decision making more often than not leads to bad results? No fluff. No side stepping. A statistical fact based counter argument. I'm listening.
