Zincwarrior
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Tell that to someone with no heat, someone living in gangland, someone living out of a car.Because the poor are only poor in relation to whoever is rich.
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Tell that to someone with no heat, someone living in gangland, someone living out of a car.Because the poor are only poor in relation to whoever is rich.
One must have extra to save and invest--extra, for many will never really happen--fact of life. But it's not that they're lazy, it's that they're numbed by their life..and like it that way.Common sense is that people will never be equally poor or equally rich.
Give a person with the motivation of the poor a modest bonus. They might go out to dinner, go shopping. Take a couple of days off work.
The person who will one day be rich will save it, invest or pay down debt.
I lived much like that as a child. We didn't have a car. I can absolutely say that those circumstances were positively the result of the decisions they made. No question.Tell that to someone with no heat, someone living in gangland, someone living out of a car.
Spoken like a Boomer with a sweet life.Most the time someone is poor because they choose to be poor. They can't help themselves. That's why so many lottery winners lose fortunes in a year or less. The poor want the lives they lead. They just want it more comfortable. The poor are poor for the same reasons they are fat. They don't think sacrifice has value.
Well the solution is simple: ensure that anyone working 40+ hours per week is not in poverty. That is literally how you sum up American progressive economic politics. It isn’t and never has been “pay everyone the same!” It isn’t about abolishing capitalism either. It’s about LIMITING and NOT ELIMINATING the two income extremes.Common sense is that people will never be equally poor or equally rich.
Give a person with the motivation of the poor a modest bonus. They might go out to dinner, go shopping. Take a couple of days off work.
The person who will one day be rich will save it, invest or pay down debt.
There was an experiment a few years ago between two groups of children, very poor black children and white middle class children.One must have extra to save and invest--extra, for many will never really happen--fact of life. But it's not that they're lazy, it's that they're numbed by their life..and like it that way.
The Shareholder class likes it that way too, just sayin'.
I am a retired attorney. I sacrificed everything for my education. I went hungry, took the bus, shopped at goodwill and didn't buy a single Christmas or birthday present for anyone. No I did not use the heat no matter how cold it got. I put every dime on tuition and books. Why? Because I did not want to live in the street and eat out of garbage cans.Spoken like a Boomer with a sweet life.
oh we could trade notes.....I am a retired attorney. I sacrificed everything for my education. I went hungry, took the bus, shopped at goodwill and didn't buy a single Christmas or birthday present for anyone. No I did not use the heat no matter how cold it got. I put every dime on tuition and books. Why? Because I did not want to live in the street and eat out of garbage cans.
You get dumber by the day.So, you can't show me the financials of minors?
lemme give ya a hand.....There ARE children in poverty.
The top 1% DESERVE to be rich. A poor person never gave anyone a job. Poverty doesn't hurt enough. It should hurt so much that people would not choose to be poor.Well the solution is simple: ensure that anyone working 40+ hours per week is not in poverty. That is literally how you sum up American progressive economic politics. It isn’t and never has been “pay everyone the same!” It isn’t about abolishing capitalism either. It’s about LIMITING and NOT ELIMINATING the two income extremes.
This obviously isn’t easily attainable, but considering corporations have record profits and the top 1% are only getting richer, it can definitely be improved.
And the poor children are still fatter than poor children elsewhere in the world.lemme give ya a hand.....
The poverty rate for children more than doubled from a historic low of 5.2 percent in 2021 to 12.4 percent in 2022, erasing all of the record gains made against child poverty over the previous two years.Sep 12, 2023
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I wasn't alive to properly critique your utopian nostalgia, so I have no idea what you're prattling on about. Some are not older than dirt.The 1940s and 1950s study show hard-core drug use was all about eradicated. And we had a much better nuclear family for black and white in those days. A better middle class as well.
Sounds like a caste system.One must have extra to save and invest--extra, for many will never really happen--fact of life. But it's not that they're lazy, it's that they're numbed by their life..and like it that way.
The Shareholder class likes it that way too, just sayin'.
and stupider at thatAnd the poor children are still fatter than poor children elsewhere in the world.
The point is, we are not lifting children out of poverty, we are lifting their worthless deadbeat parents out of poverty.lol this is such a ridiculous point you’re making. No one is suggesting that kids depend on their own income. You’re not actually making a real point with this. It’s not like it’s thing worldwide for children to not be dependent on their parents.