Study: exposure to poor people reduces support for redistribution among the rich.

God I fricking hate Paul Graham's bullshit midwit takes on everything. How does this support "the concept of luxury beliefs"? A: It doesn't, he's just mashing his stupid blue check fingers on the keyboard like the r-slur he is. Holy frick if only the tech industry didn't reward self-promoting white male mediocrity so handsomely...

Poverty isn't a refection of morale good, but neither are the poor inherently virtuous

One thing you'll realize when you live and work amongst the stifling poor in SA is how underperforming poor peeps can be, as how how very very little you'll poeple you'll find with the motivation to change their circumstances

In every class of school students ever, you'd always find a gradient of lazy unmotivated slobs and hardworking achievement addicts, who do you think tends to find the most financial success in adult life.

It is true that poverty can find anyone, I've also been without employment in life also, but the peeps who fallen on hard times and go to great lengths to work hard to ensure their children have a better future tend to be outnumbered by the laziest and worst peforming dregs of life by a factor of dozens

The drug addled and drunk, the lazy and stupid and malignant untrustworthy thieves. In a class of 100, it was completely unsurprizing to me which children had decent high paying careers post-school and whom were low-wage whites struggling as tellers or sweepers.

There were exceptions in terms of nepobabies failing upward with rich commercial farmer parents securing their underperforming moron kids decent jobs they didn't deserve, and there were hardcore working kids from poor as shit broken-homes who tragically didn't have the parents to help them pay for tertiary education and were white so could not obtain a bursary from the gov, life is unfair.

As a surveyor i have to physically walk and interact amongst the poorest people of society, so i see the naked face of many of the poorest, and how people are unmotivated to even clean the trash from their street or even their front yard.

I understand that hope tends to be for the middle-class, as they plan and act for a better tomorrow, while the poor tends to not see a future and that their every tomorrow will be a stifling one, thus snuffing the hope one needs to work and act as if for embetterment of tomorrow.

But ive also seen how the reality of the noble poor and how many of them are the architects of their own misery is a norm. I dont say this that i believe people deserve to live within the misery of SA levels of impoverishment no matter their work quality, but that laziness and bad intrinsic values have been a very real filter to people on society's economic ladder

>takes out payday loan at 129% apr to by lotto tickets and cheap booze

>damm why the system keeping me down?

I hate when r-slurs get ahold of publications.

The purpose of the paper was to understand why studies often find that wealthy people living among a high proportion of poor people are more inclined to support wealth distribution, while a different study found that wealthy people are less likely to support a petition related to income distribution when they merely see one person who looks poor walk by.

The findings indicate that the previous findings can be explained by self-selection (i.e. wealthy people intentionally moving into poorer neighborhoods), while the former can be explained by in-group out-group contact. It has literally nothing to do with 'luxury beliefs' or whatever, otherwise the majority of literature wouldn't have found that wealthy people in poorer neighborhoods are more likely to support income distribution.

I rented a room from a friend of mine's mom cause she couldn't afford the house since her mother passed away. The idea was I would stay until she could save $2000 for the inheritance attorney to switch the house into her name so she could sell it. She told me it would probably take roughly 1 year. I figured I would stay for 2 to make sure they got back up on their feet.

5 years later I realized they were never going to do this because they constantly blow their money on stupid shit and cripple themselves both physically and mentally with poor choices.

I moved out, the b-word screamed "YOU'RE FRICKING ME OVER!" when I told her I found an apartment. I gave the b-word 3 months notice I was getting an apartment.

Seriously frick poor people, they're poor from their own choices.

I got peaked on poors after being a landchad. Poors bring every misfortune upon themselves and cannot be helped

Kind of like how exposure to blacks increases racism.

And this is Danish poor. Now imagine going to a Philly and meeting the poor there.

Snapshots:

https://twitter.com/DegenRolf/status/1781312855540687295:

• ghostarchive.org

• archive.org

• archive.ph (click to archive)

The rich are the least likely to support redistribution to begin with. What is this supposed to prove?