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To think money ends poverty- not education, not mindset, not budgeting advice, just actual money?

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WildHazelCritic · 27/06/2025 17:35

I keep seeing discussions about “breaking the poverty cycle” or helping people escape hardship and the solutions are always long-term or conditional: learn to budget, go back to school, change your mindset. But poverty is often just not having enough money. And people giving money - whether through better wages, benefits, or direct support, would make the biggest difference. AIBU to think we over complicate it because people are uncomfortable with the idea of redistribution or just giving people what they need?

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Luggagerackistopheavy · 27/06/2025 17:37

I definitely know people where it was education. They fought damn hard to get a great education which in turn led to a career of increasingly well paid jobs. That ended poverty for them.

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