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“Growing up in poverty never did me any harm” insists man psychologically compelled to wish similar financial hardship on others (newsthump.com)

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Oof. Growing up poor can damage you for life, there’s so much research on this (easy to google scholar). Poverty trauma is real, and takes a while to grow out of even if you “make it”. There are people who get lucky, and they like to pretend they made it out of poverty because of some talent or whatever, but the hard truth no one admits is that there are lots of talented people who languish in the quicksand of poverty, and die in obscurity. I hate the meritocracy myth, it’s such a damaging fantasy.