2.22.2008
Neuroscience and poverty
Speaks volumes about the class system and why poverty is such a vicious circle.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/62c45126-dc1f-11dc-bc82-0000779fd2ac.html
The question now is: what does this change? Is the reasoning behind the structure of our current governmental/economic/social systems fighting poverty fundamentally challenged by this finding? To what extent? How would we then change the existing structures to account for that?
Let's just say the can of worms looks more like a 55 gallon drum here...
More here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/18/opinion/18krugman.html
- posted by vcmc @ 2/22/2008 07:21:00 PM
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This is exactly why it's so terrible that we go around the world tauting democracy when we can't even feed and take care of our own people. We don't have a democracy, we have capitalism.
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