Helping people is hard. Giving advice to people is rarely effective. Much advice boils down to: here's what I'd do if I were you. The trouble is that although you may see a way out of a given predicament as you imagine yourself facing it, you are not the one in that situation.
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So, each holiday, I go out to eat with my strugglers. I listen to their stories, and smile when they do well, or (more often) wince when they tell me where they've erred--often not realizing their mistakes. I try to make them feel loved and pick up the tab, and collapse at home.
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I don't know any liberals who think that implementing a Scandinavian-style welfare state will magically end mental illness, poor impulse control, and people generally being dumb.
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but we're going to Lift People Out Of Poverty with Education right?

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