'Just World' bias in action: A Harvard psych study published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology shows that when people are present during torture, they gradually come to believe the torture victim is guilty as a way of assuaging their consciences for their complicity in torture.

In a test of the American Dream, Adam Shepard started life from scratch with the clothes on his back and twenty-five dollars. Ten months later, he had an apartment, a car, and a small savings.

Because if a college-educated twenty-something with an emergency credit card in his pocket can survive being poor for ten months, that proves poor people are poor because they suck at life.