It's an opinion, but "fairly reasonable" is very debatable.
Being poor doesn't mean a person doesn't have principles, just like being wealthy isn't correlated with having strong principles or morals.
Being poor doesn't mean a person doesn't have principles, just like being wealthy isn't correlated with having strong principles or morals.
That seems to be saying that despite having less, the poor are exercising a far more principled life.
They are saying poverty forces people, against their will, to break their moral codes and principles. It’s one of the worst things about the power dynamics of money: not being able to afford an iPhone is a laughably trivial concern compared to having to work instead of spending time with your children, when you know how much of an impact your absence will have on them, for example.
I was glad to read it as a pithy and sobering comment, even if I didn’t agree with the rest of the post.