How Poverty Changes the Brain
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goes back to my inherited behavior thread people were hating on
if trauma is passed down through genes, if poverty puts people in debilitating fear and if rich blacks have no incentive to make business decisions that benefit the diaspora
then how do we get people to act for our collective-interest?
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NoChillJones
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Being poor makes you unable to problem solve the same as well off kids because you dealing with realer shyt in life that get in the way of making the "proper" decisons. I could argue that people who face adversity while young would have a better understanding of life and therefore would be better at problem solving in the long run as they had a much better processing of trouble solving...but the article says different....rich kids who have to choose between rather the Iphone 7 is better then the Samsung Galaxy 6...have a much better problem solving skills then say a kid who has to choose between starving or selling drugs to survive...
.....going to say the article is bullshyt as it is clearly over looking some practicalities of life...like reality and real life decisons....
The Odum of Ala Igbo
Hail Biafra!
A great existential crisis that's fast-moving, unlike this slow one?
NZA
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i guess you could do a study looking at long term outcomes of children raised well off and children raised in poverty and see if your hypothesis holds weight, breh...Being poor makes you unable to problem solve the same as well off kids because you dealing with realer shyt in life that get in the way of making the "proper" decisons. I could argue that people who face adversity while young would have a better understanding of life and therefore would be better at problem solving in the long run as they had a much better processing of trouble solving...but the article says different....rich kids who have to choose between rather the Iphone 7 is better then the Samsung Galaxy 6...have a much better problem solving skills then say a kid who has to choose between starving or selling drugs to survive...
Could be a side effect of having our own humanity denied to us. We are sophisticated like any other human and therefore susceptible to the same issues
OneTimeforTheMind
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Jesus said the poor will always be with you in this system.
THIS. THIS. THIS.
Hard Times Nakamura
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I know this is a sensitive topic but hopefully people will read my comment in it's entirety as I know reading comprehension can be a struggle for some members here.
I wonder if this same constant fight or flight state is what causes people in poverty to continue to reproduce more on average than people with wealth.
It would make sense that the primitive brain is telling you that resources are scarce and you may not be around much longer so to preserve the gene pool you need to reproduce NOW. However, counter to that the pre-frontal cortex should also deduce even at the primitive level that BECAUSE there are no resources progeny will die (or in the case of ancient times be vulnerable to predators or competitors when you are dead). So maybe this research doesn't fully answer my question.
I am trying to figure out what exactly aside from government benefits motivates poor people to have 4 kids and you look at suburban families (regardless of race) having 2 kids. Everyone has various excuses but the statistics show that this is a human habit that transcends race, religion or any other fixed markers. It is exclusive to the variables of education and economic wealth. But the ability to achieve higher education these days means to a certain degree you come from economic wealth. It is a catch-22 cycle because less children is often associated with more income - Which is why I tend to believe that we need to err on the side of having 1 or 2 kids maximum instead of 3 or 4. With every additional child the quality of attention and resources each child receives drops exponentially. And you get kids that turn out with ADHD etc in part because of this.
I wonder if this same constant fight or flight state is what causes people in poverty to continue to reproduce more on average than people with wealth.
It would make sense that the primitive brain is telling you that resources are scarce and you may not be around much longer so to preserve the gene pool you need to reproduce NOW. However, counter to that the pre-frontal cortex should also deduce even at the primitive level that BECAUSE there are no resources progeny will die (or in the case of ancient times be vulnerable to predators or competitors when you are dead). So maybe this research doesn't fully answer my question.
I am trying to figure out what exactly aside from government benefits motivates poor people to have 4 kids and you look at suburban families (regardless of race) having 2 kids. Everyone has various excuses but the statistics show that this is a human habit that transcends race, religion or any other fixed markers. It is exclusive to the variables of education and economic wealth. But the ability to achieve higher education these days means to a certain degree you come from economic wealth. It is a catch-22 cycle because less children is often associated with more income - Which is why I tend to believe that we need to err on the side of having 1 or 2 kids maximum instead of 3 or 4. With every additional child the quality of attention and resources each child receives drops exponentially. And you get kids that turn out with ADHD etc in part because of this.
We joke about it. Growing up we would clown kids and call them a "sped", but in reality as children we didnt understand that all because someone physically looks normal and can talk to you it doesnt mean they are "ok".
Anyone who went to a "hood school" had them kids who would just always be wilding out and we would just be on some "'man ol boy crazy
"Not realizing you got kids with legit mental illness ON TOP of living and poverty and literally living in hell.
Like people dont get that black children who grow up in lower income enviornments and make it out are argubly geniuses being that they were able to navigate out these systems that are literally set up to destroy them and with no real help.
Hell I always said I probably would have went to an ivy league school if i actually was in a system that could have maximized my skills as a kid.
Black kids cant even get help from their parents because they literally have to work all the time to keep the lights on.
I still remember the "college fair" at my HS school and the only people thag came was military recruiters and the community college down the street
Hell people were shocked I choose to NOT play sports in college because I was able to go to school for free because of my grades.
Like its easy to sh*t on black people especially black males but I really dont think the avg person understand from literal birth we are told we aint gonna be sh*t, so its almost like how can you be surprised when people start thinking its their destiny to fail thus they get on the whole "i dont give a f" mentality because we are literally being conditioned to not give a F.