Did it occur to you that they didn't say generational poverty was a culture on top of lack of resources, but that the lack of resources actively wasn't a part of what makes someone impoverished. That sounds a lot like bootstrap mentality to me.
I have close friends who grew up under the poverty line, and to tell me that their life experiences were nothing but their mentality was a kick to the teeth.
We have the resources to be able to properly address material lack. Is the flawed mentality really the impoverished mentality, or is it the one that finds a certain percentage of the population to be an acceptable, even natural, even necessary poverty rate? The mentality that supposes that every member of society should earn their own privilege to exist? It seems like one of these mentalities is much, much more harmful than a set of defense mechanisms that protect individuals psychologically from systems that are literally designed to exploit them.
We should not be trying to mold poor people into being ideal wage laborers. We should be making society more inhabitable to human beings.
My freaking God. I volunteered at a local charity org a bit this summer and one of the first things they told us in orientation was that "most people think that poverty is about what people lack. But it's actually a mindset." That pissed me the heck off not gonna lie.
I'm worn out ya'll
I'm in semester 1 of a Master's degree in Mathematics. I have always wanted to be a math professor. It's my dream to do that with my life.
And I adore my current professors. I love the material I'm learning from them, and I feel privileged to be here. But I have to work 2 jobs on top of being a student, just to stay afloat.
I took off work for my second job in order to make time for me to grade a stack of exams for my first job. However, when I arrived back home, I collapsed on my bed from exhaustion and slept through the entire time I'd set aside for grading.
I don't know what to do. I'm on track to doing the one thing I've ever wanted to do, but I don't know if I can make it.
I had a double major in math and comp sci for my undergrad. I could always just find a job at a tech company writing software, but it really would fucking suck to give up on my dreams because rent is too high for me to pursue them.
I was given an amazing opportunity to work for the University, and part of that involves me never having to pay them tuition. But even with tuition being a complete non issue (save for the predatory undergrad loans I have), I still feel like I'm drowning.
I'm beginning to feel like chasing my dreams was a mistake.
We have had the solution for hundreds of years. Most people, however, don't want to hear it.
The very system you defend is everything but a neutral experience where everyone can live their lives. You don't think capitalism actively holds people down? Look around.
Except that many of us, including myself, live reasonably comfortable lives under capitalism? It's an extremely selfish position to be satisfied with a system that has done good things for you personally, but has ravaged the lives of countless others.
It's not about free stuff. It has never been about free stuff. It's about the fact that a society is bad if it allows a minority population to get richer, without first ensuring that everyone's basic human needs are satisfied.
Heyo that's dope! Definitely adding that video to my watch later. Thanks for explaining that.
How do reflections work? Aren't changes in direction caused by acceleration? Also aren't photons affected by the gravity of black holes? How does that work?
I hate that. I never noticed that. This is my first job where I've had to do these types of training. I've worked food service until now. How anyone could say this kind of crap and not realize they're a bad person for doing so astounds me.
I understand where you're coming from, but I'm also confused what you expect to happen in the comments of a post like that. Would you rather people be rooting for billionaires in the comments? Or just a couple "damn that's crazy"s? In the former case, there's quite a lot of capitalist apologetics on this platform already, and I honestly envy you if you don't encounter it frequently. In the latter case, personally I would find that boring, though I suppose that's a matter of opinion.
Yeah I getcha. In my mind, capitalism does do a lot of good things, but it always seems to be at the expense of human life. And to me, the good that capitalism brings isn't a justification of the countless lives ravaged in order to make the lives of the privileged comfortable.
I totally agree with you that one has to make certain compromises in order to enjoy life with the cards we've been dealt. We can't be doom and gloom all the time, that's just miserable. However, not everyone has that luxury, as many people have had their lives irreparably destroyed by capitalism. I think it's totally fine and healthy to personally compromise with capitalism, because that's the only way someone has a chance at not living a horrible life. But I do stand by my previous statement that claiming that Nordic "socialism" is evil is not an unreasonable take. Capitalists do run amok in these countries, just not in the same ways as more traditionally capitalist countries.
I can't escape it
I was doing some online training for a new job, and one of them was of course Diversity and Inclusion training. Part of the course was about harassment, and the way they were talking about it was honestly disgusting. I transcribed a particularly egregious portion below:
>Harassment is considered illegal if it's so frequent or severe that it creates a hostile work environment. A hostile work environment is unwelcome behaviors that unreasonably interfere with an employee's ability to work and/or create an intimidating, aggression-filled or offensive work environment. Hostile work environments can make employees not look forward to coming to work, which affects the quality of their performance, and can lead to increased absentee rates and decreased productivity.
Are we joking right now? This can't be serious. Are we saying you couldn't think of a single other reason that harassment might be bad, outside of profit producing productivity?
Really didn't expect to be made sick by this training course, of all things, and yet here we are.
a little too anti capitalist
Literally impossible for this to apply to somebody. Any amount of pro-capitalism is affording certain exploitative power to the exploiters. You don't think the Nordic countries exploit the Global South? They're better than living in places like the US but democratic socialism is anything but "capitalism but good." Good for who?
Capitalism has proven itself to be an evil, evil system, both in theory and in practice. It's not a reasonable take to compromise with something so vile.
The idea that people like me are somehow the unreasonable ones for wanting to eradicate exploitation instead of defining acceptable levels of systemic pain inflicted, is honestly extraordinarily frustrating.
Yewler like math. Euler dope. Mispronunciation funny.
As an arch user myself, I almost tripped over myself running to leave this comment. I do use arch btw.
I always eat ice cream with a spoon. I can't stand any other form of it.
It can't be shown to be equivalent to -1/12. The sum definitely just simply goes to infinity. However, if you use some specific nonstandard definitions, you can squeeze out -1/12.
What I think is interesting is how many choices of nonstandard definitions you can use to "prove" this result. I can recall 3 just right off the top of my head. However, as these are nonstandard definitions, one can't really say that the sum is -1/12 without specifying which logical system you are operating in, because the default system makes it simply untrue.
It's like saying that 2+2=0. Sure, you can define the + sign to be some nonstandard function, but unless I describe that function to you, I can't just simply tell you 2+2=0, because you'd just assume the standard definition of +, in which 2+2 definitely isn't 0.
I can't claim it's as high quality as the channels you've mentioned, but I actually have a channel! I only have one video at the moment, because they take a long time to make, but I'm planning on having the next one out perhaps within the next month.
That's a really great question. The answer is that mathematicians keep their statements general when trying to prove things. Another commenter gave a bunch of examples as to different techniques a mathematician might use, but I think giving an example of a very simple general proof might make things more clear.
Say we wanted to prove that an even number plus 1 is an odd number. This is a fact that we all intuitively know is true, but how do we know it's true? We haven't tested every single even number in existence to see that itself plus 1 is odd, so how do we know it is true for all even numbers in existence?
The answer lies in the definitions for what is an even number and what is an odd number. We say that a number is even if it can be written in the form 2n, where n is some integer, and we say that a number is odd if it can be written as 2n+1. For any number in existence, we can tell if it's even or odd by coming back to these formulas.
So let's say we have some even number. Because we know it's even, we know we can write it as 2n, where n is an integer. Adding 1 to it gives 2n+1. This is, by definition, an odd number. Because we didn't restrict at the beginning which even number we started with, we proved the fact for all even numbers, in one fell swoop.