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ノア・スミスが書いた2019年の記事の切り取り
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So Japanese people are doing everything right -- eschewing violence, avoiding drugs, working hard and not having kids out of wedlock. They are following the conservative prescription, as well as or better than any other developed country in the world. And yet still, many of them are poor. This suggests that there is something very wrong with the conservative theory of poverty.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2019-07-30/u-s-economy-personal-bad-behavior-isn-t-what-causes-poverty
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/stop-blaming-america-s-poor-for-their-poverty-1.1294490