is it my fault I have to bump this thread to get replies

Bumping for you, OPie.

>>29870267
It means your problems are a result of your prior actions. For example, you may be poor because you spend your money on cigarettes and lotto tickets instead of saving it or putting it towards education/certification.

When we are born we inherit things, good and bad. Eventually as we grow up to be adults we more or less see the world clearly, and can reflect on our past while projecting our hopes for the future.

When we get to this point in our lives, we can't really blame our present selves, for what we recognize to be in the past. Why? Because we are self-aware and realize it was a problem. This implies that we can do something to improve it.

This is not always so, however. Because often there are things beyond our control, and often we suffer at the hands of these things.

So the test here, is to build up what we can, without being overcome by what we cannot. That is the test of life, and not every human being is tested equally.

>>29871028

>It means your problems are a result of your prior actions. For example, you may be poor because you spend your money on cigarettes and lotto tickets instead of saving it or putting it towards education/certification.

What if you're poor because you were born poor? Social mobility is very low in most countries. People born poor tend to stay poor.

Or, what if you spent the money on cigarettes because you were using them to treat a mental condition (which you did not choose to have) like ADD or schizophrenia?

You could say "well you would do better to get treated by a psychiatrist and get psychiatric medication", but the various generic brands of pharmaceutical drugs are effectively unregulated, and the pharmacy can switch brands at any time, often to disastrous results. The establishment is simply bullshitting about generic drugs being equivalent to the brand names--it's been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that often they're not.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/17/business/generic-ritalin-drug-not-equivalent-to-the-brand-is-in-use-anyway.html?_r=0

http://www.peoplespharmacy.com/2014/12/03/expose-reveals-why-we-no-longer-trust-all-generic-drugs/

https://www.drugwatch.com/2012/10/10/fda-admits-that-generic-wellbutrin-is-less-effective-than-brand-name/


So you can't trust psychiatric medication--the approval process is fundamentally flawed because it relies on the honor system, and big pharma clearly lacks honor.

>>29871028
>>29871207

By the way, I'm not meaning to imply that big tobacco is honorable. Far from it.