Does it just floor you how some people can be so self-destructive and so self-defeating...and not even realize it?

I was talking to a girl the other day. She was working on her GED because she needed to get a job because her husband wasn’t working. They had moved here from some other state. I asked what her husband was skilled in, and she said welding. Well, I see ads for welders quite often around here, and they make better than average money. Here, $17, $18 is a darn good starting wage, plus our cost of living here is lower than average.

Well, I told her that I often saw ads for welders, and she said, “Yes. But he can’t get near as much here as he can where we used to live. He’d start at $20 an hour there and he can only get $17 starting here! So he says it’s just not worth even applying for those jobs”

WTH???? And she just seemed to accept that “explanation” with no question…I got the impression she actually sympathized with her husband!

Do you know anyone like that?