"What about the poor"

Miscellaneous General
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I haven’t read the two books (N&D and Scratch Beginning), but I seem to recall some reviews by others.

You actually have to sort of read between the lines to figure out why the lady in N&D failed. She tries to say that society is to blame, but it seemed clear that because she was unwilling to do the stuff that the kid in SB did that she failed. Sort of like being unwilling to settle for less, which made it hard to get ahead on minimum wage. Sort of like wanted to eat at Ruby Tuesday, when they really could only afford McDees, but refusing to do so. Whereas the kid was willing to do without until he could truly afford it, etc.

22

It’s a mistake to concede that people are “poor”. It just reinforces relativistic measurement.

23

“But you’ll have to become a level 9 anarchocapitalist wizard to spout all the arguments.”

a lvl 9/17 AnCap/Austrian is the intellectual equivilent of a Kensai/Mage.

when a statist says ‘you don’t care about poor people’, you just shrug, mutter ‘haters gonna hate’, and strut out of the room b/c if you aren’t bracing the remnant, you’re wasting time.