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Yes and no. There can be no wisdom without hardship, but hardship alone is not enough. If it was, every third world country or ghetto in a first world one would be full of FAR more wisdom. Instead, they tend to have the LEAST wisdom.

Wisdom comes from self-reflection. Self-reflection is hard and discomforting sometimes. Hardship FORCES this in those people still willing and capable of it, whereas excessive comfort allows someone to kick the self-reflection can down the road indefinitely.

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OneEyeKing 3mo ago đź’¬ 1

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Josephus 3mo ago đź’¬ 1

Yes. But my point still stands. Too many people in third world countries or bad areas in wealthier countries who cannot start fires or do other basic self-sustainment activities. This isn’t me knocking on a poor person for not inventing teleportation or something. But if you spend time in poor ghettos in rich countries… the people tend to be there BECAUSE of a lack of wisdom and none of the hardship there experienced seems to fix that on a statistical level.