The Rubbery Bones of the Lazy | Blog & Mablog

The Rubbery Bones of the Lazy | Blog & Mablog

Introduction In just a minute, I will have a thought experiment for you. Like all cultures our culture generalizes, but we have been trained to generalize about poverty in an exculpatory way. In other words, our default assumptions about poverty routinely tend to exclude the factors created by the poor themselves. We tend to think of them as primarily unfortunate instead of primarily, say, irresponsible. Now of course, there are other circumsta…