Was Malthus ever poor?

[Ed Anger]

This is one of the weirdest languish threads in a very long time.

It is like watching a special needs class fighting over a candy bar.

[Jacob]

It is like watching a special needs class fighting over a candy bar.

So much like your home life, then?

[Ed Anger]

It is like watching a special needs class fighting over a candy bar.

So much like your home life, then?

I'll ignore that crack.

[katmai]

Aka the Troof hurts!

[HVC]

It is like watching a special needs class fighting over a candy bar.

So much like your home life, then?

Hey, that's one of my future wives you're talking about!

[Ed Anger]

It is like watching a special needs class fighting over a candy bar.

So much like your home life, then?

Hey, that's one of my future wives you're talking about!

None of my kids is marrying an eggplant.

As for Jacob, I'm assuming he didn't mean to call my kids retards.

[katmai]

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree!

[HVC]

It is like watching a special needs class fighting over a candy bar.

So much like your home life, then?

Hey, that's one of my future wives you're talking about!

None of my kids is marrying an eggplant.

As for Jacob, I'm assuming he didn't mean to call my kids retards.

It's hard to tell with him

[DGuller]

It is like watching a special needs class fighting over a candy bar.

So much like your home life, then?

[katmai]

Why is Hitler waving a post it note?

[PDH]

It was his thing.

[DGuller]

 

[garbon]

Why is Hitler waving a post it note?

[sbr]

How is it like that at all? Meri and CC aren't taking issue with the word poor but just as he applies to himself. I don't think the same would be true if Malthus started calling himself the n-word in public. Then black people would probably take issue with the word itself just as much as him applying it to himself.

I'm sure they'd also be annoyed if he called himself black.

Perhaps though I think part of that would depend on why. I'm not sure I can think of a "legitimate" reason for Malthus to call himself black.

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[Tamas]

That said, unless you are something of an immigrant far away from your contacts, or an orphan, or a really big asshole, can you really claim you were in danger of proper homelessness and starvation when you were poor? How many of you had no parents, no family, no friends whom they could expect to fall back on at least temporarily for survival?

When your friends and family has no more money than you do - which isn't enough to live on - how do you go to them to ask for a handout, or a place to live, or food?

Its funny because Tamas earlier said he has no idea what it is like to be poor and now he is pontificating on how only a small subset of the poor (like complete assholes) are in any danger of being hungry or homeless.

I suppose the take home message from that is that if Tamas ever becomes poor he most certainly would be homeless and hungry.

What the fuck?

the chief argument against Malthus' claim of being poor at some point in his life was basically that he didn't face the "fail to pay your costs and die of hunger" situation.
It wasn't ME making that connection, but several others, I just spelled it out.

If ANYTHING, my point was that you CAN be poor without having the "one wrong month -> die for certain" condition.

Jeesh, I knew I shouldn't be involved in this thread. Too many egos without their protective shells out in the sun.