
Attachment, Stress & Bootstraps – The Intersection of Poverty & Mental Health with Dr. Sharon Lambert (191)
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Why You Shouldn't Blame the Poor
When you're poor, everything is more expensive. There's so much hostility around pull yourself up by your bootstraps. You actually worked hard enough. If you're on welfare, it's because you're lazy. So to tell somebody to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, they got noBootstraps. They haven't got them and you need to give them to them so that they can pull up their self-made myth. And often the people who are self-made there are held up as being 'no good' at all.
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