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>> People should factor such risks into their financial planning.

Easy for us to say, with our six-figure salaries and hot job market. How the heck is someone working a minimum wage job supposed to do any financial planning? How does a child without the sort of supportive environment I had escape the cycle of poverty?

Libertarianism is great if everyone is equally powerful. I'd be all for it if all people were equally educated, equally wealthy, and equally willing to respect others' property rights.



I work a minimum wage job. Save, save, and save some more. The only people I could reasonably blame for my position in life would be my parents, not wider society.

Maybe people should blame their parents more instead of vague shadowy corporations?




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