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The article doesn't say they have no choices it says they have less/limited choices. And this is simply a common sense fact. The more resources/power you have the more options you have.

I can buy so many more things and combinations of things with $100 vs $1, for example.

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> The article doesn't say they have no choices it says they have less/limited choices.

When you are poor, sometimes all of the choices available to you are bad ones.

And when you are constrained to making an endless series of 'least bad' choices, is it any wonder that at some point you inevitably go for some instant gratification to ameliorate your intolerable circumstance, at least for a while?

School is being paid for, even in the US, I think? Just keep your head down, do your homework, don't do drugs, don't get in trouble, and your odds for escaping poverty are probably quite good.

Sure, but I don't think most rich people think poor people have just the same choices. That's not implied when they think choices make people poor.

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