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Why do you believe poor people can't simultaneously be terrible people?

Have you never seen the kind of horrific rat race mentality that widespread generational poverty can drive in a society?

Like If you listed the poorest neighbourhoods in the poorest cities in your country do you get highly virtuous places filled with saints.

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They don't. You invented that argument from whole cloth.

> it would show the ones with the least, being the most powerful and wealthy on this planet.

I think it should be logically inverted. Right now it says:

Not virtuous => Extreme wealth.

But I think it makes more sense as:

Extreme wealth => Not virtuous




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