If I could highlight a paragraph it would be this one:
"Implying that someone is poor because of their laziness or lack of will to improve their situation means that you fundamentally misunderstand what it means to be poor."
So many of us really don't understand this and thanks for putting things into perspective. To be honest I often ask or think to myself why don't we all just learn to code and everything would be better, without realizing how complicated other people's lives can be.
Thank you for writing this.
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I'm a Software Engineer and a teacher.
There's no feeling quite like the one you get when you watch someone's eyes light up learning something they didn't know.
We all have this bias where we feel like our success is deserved mainly due to our own hard work. We don't necessarily realize how much of it is due to pure luck (I seem to recall a certain politician bragging that his success was due to his own hard work, plus a 'moderate' loan of a few million from his dad).
Of course hard work is necessary; without it you'd be nowhere. But many people work harder than you or I ever will, and are still stuck simply because they were not as lucky in the lottery of life.
This realization is necessary if we will be creating a word built on empathy for those less fortunate than us.
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If I could highlight a paragraph it would be this one:
"Implying that someone is poor because of their laziness or lack of will to improve their situation means that you fundamentally misunderstand what it means to be poor."
So many of us really don't understand this and thanks for putting things into perspective. To be honest I often ask or think to myself why don't we all just learn to code and everything would be better, without realizing how complicated other people's lives can be.
Thank you for writing this.
We all have this bias where we feel like our success is deserved mainly due to our own hard work. We don't necessarily realize how much of it is due to pure luck (I seem to recall a certain politician bragging that his success was due to his own hard work, plus a 'moderate' loan of a few million from his dad).
Of course hard work is necessary; without it you'd be nowhere. But many people work harder than you or I ever will, and are still stuck simply because they were not as lucky in the lottery of life.
This realization is necessary if we will be creating a word built on empathy for those less fortunate than us.