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Economic inequality cannot be explained by individual bad choices, study finds (phys.org)

submitted 1 year ago by AllonzeeLV@vlemmy.net to c/science@kbin.social

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[–] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Captain Obvious to the rescue? What do they think Karl Marx was writing about?

[–] Anomander@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

A lot of social sciences is about generating and constructing data to prove something that seems obvious to most casual observers.

Part of why is cases like this - that despite it seeming evident to many folks, there are many others who insist that poor people are to blame for being poor, and bad individual decision-making is the only reason that poverty exists.