It's my true belief that 80% of the bottom dwellers could do everything right and would never be able to get past poverty level. Just the fact that there are 50 million people who are unemployed/ or given up looking for now, not counting those who will always be poor and unemployable for the most part, tells us that there isn't a road to get everyone out of the poverty that we have, there aren't enough jobs as many people right now are working two part time or low pay jobs to make ends meet.
You're belief is wrong. I don't how much more simple it can be made for you. The problem is there are people like you that want a certain action (or lack of action as the case may be) to generate income. When the fact is those actions aren't very efficient at generating large amounts of income. Doing a job for 40-50 hours a week that many many other people have the skills to do or could easily be trained to do is not going to make you wealthy. It's that simple. I spend a lot of time observing people too. And I certainly haven't observed and you probably can't honestly say you have either, that 80% of the people you know are engaging in the actions necessary to generate more income. There is no shortage of jobs I can promise you that. Put a resume on monster and/or career builder and watch how many job openinings get into your mailbox. I did this past winter. I had half a dozen outright job offers in two weeks. There is no shortage of jobs. There is a shortage of people with the skills to do them because most of the people are fucks like you that want more for nothing.
Where do people get this idea that everyone who is poor has gotten there because of the fact they are lazy?
Where do people get the idea that everything bad that happens to you can't possibly be your own damn fault? I get the idea because it is observable day in a day out. I know what the people around me make and spend enough time around them to know what they're NOT doing to earn more money. They're woman that decided to become single mothers. They're people that decided not to go to college. They're people that just plain don't have the ambition. They're people that would rather occupy there time doing things that aren't conducive to accumulating wealth and that's fine. But there are specific things one can do to generate income. If you choose not to do those things beause you'd rather be doing something else you have not right to complain about not having the amount of money you would like to have.
There is no greater proof then myself for this. Guess what? I'm not rich. Hell I'm practically poverty level, low 20k a year income. I ought to be bitching like you about how it's everyone elses fault I'm not making more money right? Except unlike you, and this is the shocking thing given how much older than me you must be, I have the ability to be objective and honest with myself and the honest answer is there are a lot of things I know i could do differently that would help me make more money. I'm just not doing them because I suppose I've decided conciously or otherwise, good enough is good enough. I may like to make more but apparently I am not uncomfortable enough yet with the sutation to take action and do anything about it. But I know for certain i have not exhausted my options until then I don't feel i have the right to blame anyone but myself for my current level of income.