When I was a child in the ‘60’s my father was sick for a whole year and did not work. We ate lots of potato’s. I asked my mother if we were poor and she said, “We don’t have much money but we’re not poor. I buy potato’s. Poor people spend their last dollar on cigarettes and beer. Being poor is a state of mind.”
Exactly. In some races/cultures, poverty is generational. Yet in others, like Asians who came here with only the shirts on their backs, each generation is more successful than the last.
“Being poor is a state of mind.”
Bingo. The more I help the poor, the more I see it’s a matter of mindset.
Welfare state doesn’t help, making change of mindset very hard.
We don’t have much money but we’re not poor