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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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I read those responses; what you fail to realize is that if you are stupid or poor enough, consequences have no meaning or effect. There's not a lot to be done to someone who lives in a 60-year-old single-wide trailer with no electricity, drinking well water drawn 30 feet from an oozing pile of trash, who can't spell their own name.
I strongly disagree, because one of the consequences of being stupid while being poor is precisely to remain poor or outright misery . And with what you say, well, it can always get worse: losing the trailer in a disaster, catching a disease from poorly treated water, being deceived with promises of wealth and ending up in prison or dead...
Agree to disagree, I suppose.
Your basic assertion is that a poor person would have to change their ways due to circumstances brought-on by their stupidity, and this is false.
The stupid lack the awareness to see the issue as having come from themselves, and therefore will not change; when you have no money, you pay for everything with bits of your life.
So a person who is both stupid and poor will see sickness, jail time, any sort of negative as merely another price tag to pay for what others have done to them. They'll pay the price, become a little more bitter, and continue as they were - most-likely with a heightened determination and sense of pride.
That's not a privilege, that's a punishment, whether they recognise it or not