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Not sure how to interpret the pounding of downvotes.

Do others feel that no injustice exists in a situation where comfortable living and hopeless suffering are deemed products by luck?

Is it a disagreement that the GP's situation is based on luck (I never made that claim, GP did)?

Is it disagreement that people living comfortably based on self-admitted luck should concern themselves with those who perpetually suffer because they weren't as lucky?

Something else I'm oblivious to?

I think the point is that poor people aren't poor because they cock everything up, but because social structures and the very belief that they will cock things up is what denies them the opportunity to pull themselves out of poverty.

Few things are impossible. Give the author some credit. I think if your takeaway is that the author is claiming mobility is impossible, you've missed the point entirely.

The author is explaining to you the self-perpetuating cycle and psychology that keeps poor people poor, despite what they feel are their best efforts.

As a person who has struggled with poverty for decades, I find your underlying dismissal of the article as "nah, it's not that bad" based on technical nitpicking pretty offensive.

Do you feel the need to remedy this injustice, when, as you claim, the difference between you and a poor person is luck?

> there is a big difference politically between saying poor people feel unable to improve their situation, and that poor people actually are unable to improve their situation.

When the feeling of hopelessness cripples you into a self-fulfilling prophecy, the two are one and the same.