Wealth Inequality in America

[Mr Puggsly]

anonymunchy said:

"Not acquring the skills needed to get a decent paying job is a choice."
This is far from the truth. Not everyone is born with the same privileges. No one choses where they are born, who raises them, how they get introduced into the world, who teaches them how to live. Someone who is born into poverty may never even realise they want to get out of it. They are a product of their surroundings, just like you. Your words paint an overly simplistic picture of some very complex issues. It may have been a choice for you, it certainly isn't for everyone. Besides this, there is no guarentee that the skill you acquire is going to lead you to a decent paying job. Job markets change constantly and so do education requirements. To go even further, shouldn't "decent paying" be a requirement for all jobs? Someone needs to do the work, so someone needs to survive on what it pays.

Besides some Scandinavian countries I've never heard of a government actually given money to people to go to college. The idea of getting into debt with the government without job security doesn't sound very appealing to me neither.

Not sure whether or not my point will come across, but it's the best I can do right now.

You're making excuses for the people that choose not work towards something better than they're born into. You're basically saying people are ignorant to a better life than poverty, but I feel many are simply content with their situation. A poor American lives a better life than most people in the world.

Many people don't even make the effort to finish High School and that's free. That's a great example of how unmotivated a large number of people are in this country.

Are you aware the US gives money to people so they can go to college? I'm not talking about loans, its free money for people that don't have much money. Many people don't even bother to take advantage of it because they're too damn lazy.