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The idea of responsibility has many forms both historically and culturally. Philosophers have debated whether we can be truly responsible for our actions in the context of discussions about free-will; theologians have wrestled with the idea of taking responsibility for our sins; scientists have joined the discussion by searching for causation and exploring the psychology and neurology of our brains.
But today, the idea of individual responsibility is often invoked in discussions about welfare, poverty, and enterprise. Increasingly, throughout the liberal and neoliberal periods, weâve â in politics and the media, at least - emphasised âresponsibility for ourselvesâ at the expense of other types of responsibilities, moral obligations, or duties.
Is poverty a personal inadequacy? A problem of persons? A problem of character? A problem of culture? Or is it a problem of place? Of systems? Of society?
The particular form âindividual responsibilityâ has taken today â atomised, asocietal, ideally self-dependent, culturally âbackwardâ, genetically limited â is a relatively new historical and political concept which is used to justify the dismantling of welfare, the rejection of altruism, and the unravelling of community.
Any cultural interpretation of responsibility is bound-up with politics, language, culture and society, and, has a history thatâs not simply progressive and linear. Instead of being responsible for ourselves, the concept of 'mutual obligations' or duties includes the responsibility to work hard and improve ourselves, but can also better accommodate contributing to the world, aiding others, remembering no man is an island and turning our gaze not inwards but outwards.
I look at how this idea of individual responsibility developed in parallel with the history of poverty, looking at Edward Banfield's The Moral Basis of a Backward Soceity, Oscar Lewis' Culture of Poverty, Daniel Moynihan's The Negro Family, Charles Murray's Losing Ground and the Bell Curve, and George Gilder's Wealth and Poverty. We look at poverty and responsibility from the Middle Ages, through to the Poor Laws, to Kennedy, LBJ, The Great Society, The War on Poverty, to the Reagan and Thatcher era and to Obama and Fox News today. Of course, Jordan Peterson also makes an appearance.
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Michael Katz, The Underserving Poor
Yascha Mounnk, The Age of Responsibility: Luck, Choice, and the Welfare State
Nash, Gary B. "Poverty and Poor Relief in Pre-Revolutionary Philadelphia." The William and Mary Quarterly 33, no. 1 (1976): 3-30. Accessed July 6, 2021. doi:10.2307/1921691.
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Jordan Peterson, 12 Rules for Life
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The personal responsibility debate died with the crash of 2008 when the people we gave the most responsibility did the least responsible things and weren't held responsible
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"This country has socialism for the rich, and rugged individualism for the poor" MLK
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I've always found it odd that the wealthy oligarchs who say it's all of our responsibility to serve their interests never themselves see it as their responsibility to adequately give back to the society that made their riches possible, nor do they take responsibility to take care of the environment that we all depend upon for sustenence.
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This is an absurdly high-value documentary on the perception of poverty. I will have to watch it a second time to fully grasp everything it went over.
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"The fact is, if youâre poor, you only get one chance. If youâre wealthy like Bush, you get chance after chance after chance after chance. So youâre a C student at Andover, and you go to Yale, and you go to Harvard Business School, and youâre AWOL from your National Guard unit, and youâre a cokehead, and it doesnât really matter. You donât even really have a job till youâre 40 and you become president of the United States" - Chris Hedges.
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Poverty is not a lack of character, it's a lack of money
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When I was in college living in NYC one of my gentry co workers often spoke of this "value" when faced with the growing homeless population. Meanwhile, her parents paid half her extremely high rent. She bought a house a couple of years ago. They laid the down payment and recently bought her a brand new boiler.
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All 4 of my grandparents grew up in poverty as pickers in the fields, but one of them did what usually has to be done for a poor family to get over the hump of accessing the middle class: join the military.
âThe poverty draftâ is a very real thing, and if you never see a recruitment station near your house, you are probably doing well.
Thanks, Welo đ
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I find it amazing that the eugenics movement, not only determined that the poor are genetically predisposed to poverty and thus it was futile to help them, but could somehow could still believe that they were individually responsible.
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its amazing that in the information age, the rich are still able to maintain this charade.
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I'm only 17 minutes in and I already want to cry. I simply don't understand how anyone can see another human being with so much contempt
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It's like a card game... You aren't responsible for the cards you get, but you are responsible for how you play those cards, yet sometimes even if you play it perfectly, you still lose to a better hand, or plain bad luck.
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This is one of those times when youâre both amazed and thankful that this kind of quality is available free of charge and at any time you want
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Ever notice that the personal responsibility crowd shifts blame from the individual to the group when it's convenient?
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"Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area â crime, education, housing, race relations â the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them." - Thomas Sowell.
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"In 1947 the average American family had less than 500 dollars in savings" is a terrifying sentence. $500 in 1947 is the equivalent of $6,750 in today's money, and yet the figure hasn't changed. According to a 2022 study by Prudential, half of Americans don't have $500 dollars in their savings account. This might be addressed later in the video, but it's just something that smacked me in the face as I was starting to get into it. Something has to change.
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Long ago, as our elders aged we took them into our homes and fed them.
Long ago if one hunter was not able to harvest any game, the other hunters would share their game.
This is a true society. This is a community that would never allow for the robber barons of the industrial age or our more modern versions.
I want to have a good life and I can't do that unless I have helped to make yours better.
This idea is seen as weakness. It is the opposite. A society built on this idea can be far stronger than neoliberal idea of personal responsibility and how it divides us all from one another.
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Trump was a millionaire by age 8 because, you know... personal responsibility or something.
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For American Indians and Black Americans, there were neighborhoods that thrived and were "personally responsible." But some in society saw to destroy those communities, reduce opportunities, and leave relative few options other than relying on the government.
People moved in to their land and property, benefitted, and then wanted the disenfranchised to get their own. From the Trail of Tears to broken treaties to segregation to redlining..... our country has made it harder for certain individuals to thrive.
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