Poverty can be more than just willful disregard for opportunities: it’s sometimes a lifetime of tertiary layers of soul-crushing decisions, bad breaks, compounding consequences, blinding self-defeating inner dialogue that few have the self awareness and strength to overcome. I know people like that and it’s heartbreaking. I’ll never be able to “orange pill” them as it’s impossible for them to see beyond their circumstances. “Lost your wife/job/truck/house/license/wallet & phone while in jail bro? Fuck man, how can I even send you some money now? Shit bro!“