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Thursday, November 16, 2023

Opus 2023-278: Cure for Poverty

On the way to Canyon Lake there is a billboard that says something to the effect of ending poverty forever and it has a picture of a young man looking into your eyes with a wistful look.  I am assuming that the answer they have is an expensive government program with lots of well paid administrators.  

I have another solution, one that has stood the test of time.  My answer to that heart wrenching appeal is not a program but “Get a job”.  There is a simplistic solution for people trying to be successful in life.  It has three steps with some variation depending on who is proclaiming it:  1)  Don’t get arrested, 2)  Graduate from high school, 3)  Don’t have any children until after you are married.

I doubt if anyone will share that with him.

homo unius libri

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