TheRealMafoo said:
Not lazy, just not willing to put in the effort to have worth. Not the same thing. Now some put in the effort, and are still poor. THis is to a failing in government. The way you fix it, is to create a society where the only people who are poor, are there due to their own actions. If of the millions who are poor, 10% of them are poor because government did not break down barriers (like they were denied an education due to color, or a job because they were a woman for example), then it’s the governments job to fix these injustices. These are the failings in government I want fixed. Not the stealing of effort from one group of people, to give it to another group. In a perfect world, you would still have poor people. It’s just 100% of those poor people were poor due to their choices. America is very close to being there, but we have a little ways to go. |
Almost no one is poor due to their choices. Most people that are poor were born into poor environments and have never really had a chance to better themselves. Sure, a few people like Oprah get lucky, but when you have status quos in place at most jobs even fast food restaurants that ensure that only a few people regardless of work output due to favoritism, etc, ever reach the lofty role of restaurant manager, then poorer people never really have a chance to move ahead. What is a quarter here and there to minimum wage ever really going to do to better their lives especially when with every increase to minimum wage stores start charging more for their goods?
The only people who never really get ahead due to their own actions are probably drug addicts and criminals. Still people that become drug addicts and criminals often do so because of the environments they grew up in or their socio-economic conditions, and even then this society always wants to say that almost everyone deserves a second chance, and judges never convict those people that are guilty of misdemeanors to lives as penniless paupers, but second chances are actually harder to come by than they are supposed to be which continues the cycle of criminal activity in many cases.
