Do you think the poor are lazy? - CSMonitor.com

[maevele]

Do you think the poor are lazy? - CSMonitor.com

Awesome article about how we talk about poverty/wealth.

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[raanve]

Interesting to me that that essay locates the reader as pretty squarely "middle class" -- neither rich nor poor -- and seems to lean on the suggestion that the middle class folks are the ones who should be doing the grunt work. (Not that they shouldn't be, but where does action from "rich" folk come in?)

This is part of why I think these discussions are so important: once again, the default assumption for US readers is "you are middle class", irrespective of what the actual circumstances might be. And coupled with that is the notion of economic/class mobility, and the idea that we should all be moving/wanting/working to move UP the chain. (To a point where we're "rich" and therefore no longer have to be bothered with worrying about the people "below" us?)

/random babbling