| ▲ | mandmandam 3 days ago | ||||||||||||||||||||||
> Only poor people care about test scores as they imagine high test scores is how one can pull themselves out of being poor. Bashing 'poor people' aside, it's safe to say that on a national level, declining test scores are a warning sign that merits investigation. > When you are rich you can also do pointless things just for the fun of it like build bridges to nowhere You can, but there's no small amount of broken window fallacy there. > None of these are problems unless you try and look at it through a poor man's lens. I might be too poor to see the joy of building of bridges to nowhere, but there are still 'problems' with declining test scores, government misuse of funds, and pointless infrastructure projects. > statistically, only poor people like having children Yeesh. There are at least three reasons why this is completely wrong, but what's more important is that you seem to have a weird bone to pick with "poor people". You really might want to sort that out for yourself. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | dang 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
You've continued to make a habit of attacking other users in comments here, as well as posting an enormous quantity of flamewar comments. Since we've asked you many times not to do this and even unbanned you on condition that you'd stop do, I think enough is enough and have re-banned your account. This is not what HN is for, and badly destroys what it is for. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42419831 (Dec 2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40868959 (July 2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35407476 (April 2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34854957 (Feb 2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30293928 (Feb 2022) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28699914 (Sept 2021) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28654320 (Sept 2021) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28650525 (Sept 2021) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | 9rx 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
> Bashing 'poor people' aside 'Bashing' is a human trait. Software on the internet carries no such emotion. > declining test scores are a warning sign that merits investigation. Just as increasing test scores is a warning sign that merits investigation. But that doesn't suggest a problem, only change. What good is wealth if it is not used to user in change? > there's no small amount of broken window fallacy there. Not really. The broken window fallacy is based on the idea of breaking windows for the good of the economy. There is nothing to suggest that bridges are being built to nowhere for the good of the economy. Maybe when you are poor the economy is front and centre in your thoughts, but not everything has to be about the economy. > government misuse of funds, and pointless infrastructure projects. This can be a problem if you aren't wealthy enough to support it, but, again, this cannot be observed through a poor lens. If the people of Norway (which is a democracy — the people direct the government) want to spend their extensive wealth in a way a poor person would consider foolish, they can. That is benefit of being wealthy. > There are at least three reasons why this is completely wrong Looks more like zero reasons. Assuming three wasn't a number randomly pulled out of hat, perhaps something got truncated during preparation of this message? > but what's more important is that you seem to have a weird bone to pick with "poor people". Again, software doesn't have this emotion you are trying to personify. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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