<story><title>Medicine Hat becomes the first city in Canada to eliminate homelessness</title><url>http://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-thursday-edition-1.3074402/medicine-hat-becomes-the-first-city-in-canada-to-eliminate-homelessness-1.3074742</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>minikites</author><text>&amp;gt; I even said some dumb things like, &amp;#x27;Why should they have granite countertops when I don&amp;#x27;t.&amp;#x27; However, I&amp;#x27;ve come around.&lt;p&gt;This sort of &amp;quot;crab mentality&amp;quot; makes even discussing things like basic income, minimum wage, or projects like this so difficult, let alone implementing them. People come to believe they deserve their position in life when so much of it is due to advantages&amp;#x2F;disadvantages outside their control: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.pbs.org&amp;#x2F;newshour&amp;#x2F;bb&amp;#x2F;business-jan-june13-makingsense_06-21&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.pbs.org&amp;#x2F;newshour&amp;#x2F;bb&amp;#x2F;business-jan-june13-makingsen...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The rich players are determined randomly by coin toss, the game rigged so they cannot lose. And yet, says Piff, despite their presumably liberal bent going in, [w]hen we asked them afterwards, how much do you feel like you deserved to win the game? The rich people felt entitled. They felt like they deserved to win the game. And that’s a really incredible insight into what the mind does to make sense of advantage or disadvantage.&lt;p&gt;Successful people believe they deserve to be successful and they believe that unsuccessful people must have acted in a way to deserve it, because attributing your success and their destitution to factors outside anyone&amp;#x27;s control is scary and difficult.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Lambdanaut</author><text>Because winners of purely stochastic games believe they deserve the win &lt;i&gt;does not&lt;/i&gt; imply that our real game of life is purely stochastic. It has stochastic elements, for sure, but the player himself has an enormous amount of possible moves that you could label &amp;quot;free will&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Success in life is an incredibly complex game, maybe the most complex game. There are strategies one can follow and build upon to up their chances of success in life, and hypothetically if one were omniscient so that they could understand all of the random variables then they could judge whether somebody else &amp;quot;deserved their lot in life&amp;quot;. If the player made all the best strategic moves given his input, and he also reaped those rewards, then he truly deserved his lot in life. If he didn&amp;#x27;t reap the rewards, then it&amp;#x27;s obvious he didn&amp;#x27;t deserve his lot. This is apposed to a purely stochastic game in which the omniscient individual would only be able to determine that the game&amp;#x27;s outcome had nothing at all to do with the player&amp;#x27;s moves.&lt;p&gt;In a hostile game in which other players are neck to neck with you(like the government and the capitalist elite in our corrupt game), you still have free will, it&amp;#x27;s just that exercising it in the most precisely strategic ways has become very, very valuable.</text></comment>
<story><title>Medicine Hat becomes the first city in Canada to eliminate homelessness</title><url>http://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-thursday-edition-1.3074402/medicine-hat-becomes-the-first-city-in-canada-to-eliminate-homelessness-1.3074742</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>minikites</author><text>&amp;gt; I even said some dumb things like, &amp;#x27;Why should they have granite countertops when I don&amp;#x27;t.&amp;#x27; However, I&amp;#x27;ve come around.&lt;p&gt;This sort of &amp;quot;crab mentality&amp;quot; makes even discussing things like basic income, minimum wage, or projects like this so difficult, let alone implementing them. People come to believe they deserve their position in life when so much of it is due to advantages&amp;#x2F;disadvantages outside their control: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.pbs.org&amp;#x2F;newshour&amp;#x2F;bb&amp;#x2F;business-jan-june13-makingsense_06-21&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.pbs.org&amp;#x2F;newshour&amp;#x2F;bb&amp;#x2F;business-jan-june13-makingsen...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The rich players are determined randomly by coin toss, the game rigged so they cannot lose. And yet, says Piff, despite their presumably liberal bent going in, [w]hen we asked them afterwards, how much do you feel like you deserved to win the game? The rich people felt entitled. They felt like they deserved to win the game. And that’s a really incredible insight into what the mind does to make sense of advantage or disadvantage.&lt;p&gt;Successful people believe they deserve to be successful and they believe that unsuccessful people must have acted in a way to deserve it, because attributing your success and their destitution to factors outside anyone&amp;#x27;s control is scary and difficult.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RobertoG</author><text>Agree. I think we should change how we talk about this. Instead of talking about “the successful people” or “the rich” we should say “when we are successful we believe we deserve to be successful, when we are poor [..]”. In psychological terms, there are not difference between we and them, and that should show in the way we speak.&lt;p&gt;There are bias that we all suffer when we are poor and when we are rich:
&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.deseretnews.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;865583328&amp;#x2F;Does-money-corrupt-A-controversial-study-explores-the-effects-of-money-on-human-behavior.html?pg=all&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.deseretnews.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;865583328&amp;#x2F;Does-money-corr...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is not a moral fault of the rich in the same way that it&amp;#x27;s not a moral fault of the poor. Only if we go beyond this confrontational mindset we can learn something.&lt;p&gt;As Ortega y Gasset put it: I am I and my circumstance</text></comment>