Posted on 12/05/2018 9:05:41 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Ambition, or lack thereof.
For the most part, too many children.
But also stupidity, ignorance, and sloth.
MOST OF THE TIME because they were born poor in an area with bad government.
The USA was once ‘poor’.
People arrived here with nothing.
HARD WORK generated wealth. Good government fostered that development. Bad government is killing it
Poor people a re poor and wealthy people are wealthy, both for the SAME REASON.
Both groups keep doing that which maintains their status.............
This article implies that social-engineering (albeit from Republicans) can somehow eliminate “the poor.”
Nearly ALL government attempts to achieve equality of outcome instead end up creating the opposite.
Bell curve.
“Rich” and “poor” are relative in terms of an abstraction - the numbers assigned to represent some value.
So it’s only “natural” that the mathematics of probability appears in the analysis.
This is why you should take a lot of math classes. Otherwise, you are easily duped and walk around in an almost constant state of bewilderment at what happens around you.
She had the deck stacked against her in just about every way you can imagine.
Now she is a billionaire.
The Liberal idea is hogwash in my opinion. The circumstances you are born into may matter a little, but the really key thing is what you make of yourself.
Work ethics....It’s what made our country. People like Donald Trump’s father.
It takes two people earn a living wage now
That is why welfare is great for a single person..
In the 1950s...only the husband worked and they had a pretty good life....
and a single person did too
Why didn’t the “war on poverty” fix this problem with all the money thrown at it over decades? Oh wait, Alexandria Occasio-Cortez was not in charge!
Because of Conservatives, Trump...oh, and Global Warming.
> Why Are People Poor? <
That depends on your definition of “poor”. Poor folks today are much better off than many middle-class people were 100 years ago. And they are definitely better off than kings were 500 years ago.
Open a faucet today, and by golly, water comes out. Plug an electric appliance into a wall socket, and by golly, you have power.
Count your blessings, “rich” or “poor”.
From my experience, poor people are poor because they continue to do things that keep them poor. Wealthy people are wealthy because they continue to do things that make them wealthy. Fortunately those that are poor can change their habits can increase their wealth. Conversely, a healthy person can become poor by adopting the habits of the poor.
Get educated, don’t do drugs or drink, be ambitious, show up to work, be the solutions guy, take opportunities when they come, don’t follow life paths that lead nowhere, marry wisely, treat people with respect, spend frugally and be prepared for bad times. You may never be a billionaire but you will live comfortably.
Because they choose to be
Author omits possible genetic factors. IQ follows the Bell Curve. Other characteristics, like propensity to violence, also have a genetic component.
Poverty, of course, is a relative thing, both as to wealth levels & individual values.
opportunity
decisions
responsibility
To have money you have to produce something or sell something, or save someone money, or enable someone to make a profit.
If you do none of those, you actually will be better off than the productive person. Once you are designated “poor,” none of the benefits you receive are added to your “income,” and so you remain “poor,” and eligible for more benefits. Benefits can raise your real income to about 40K per year.
The “rich” are always designated “rich” even though 50% of their earnings are sucked up in taxes to pay the “poor.” Earn 100K, you’re “rich,” but you pay 50K in taxes, but are still considered to be earning 100K causing you to be scorned and $hit upon.
My neighbor is unhappy.
He doesn’t have the stuff the other neighbors have.
I went to a different neighbor’s house and stole $10,000 from him.
I kept $5,000 of that stolen money and gave my unhappy neighbor $5,000.
Does that make me a humanitarian?
Does that make me a good person?
It makes me a Democrat politician.
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