Lazarus wrote:To paraphrase, some people are born into poverty, some have poverty thrust upon them.
NOBODY chooses it.
The number of mindless twats who feel that those living in poverty are doing it deliberately, because they want to be fukking poor, just so they can get a marginally subsistence payment is amazing.
We used to be the land of the fair go, now we've become the land of "suck sh!t, loser".
Shame on us
Yeah life can suck sometimes. Bad stuff happens to good people. I got hit by a drunk driver which wiped out my next planned trip to Australia which would have been in July 2019, then nearly got killed at work and then in late February 2020, everything was looking good, plenty of contracts and work lined up, at peak career in my 40s and then we know what happened next.
If things go well within 2-3 years I can get back to where I was in Feb 2020. Big government put my life back in some ways 5 years.
In the end main lesson I learned was continue to work to make myself anti fragile and do even more work to make sure my life isn't in the hands of others, especially those in government.
I could always take the other route of the victimhood olympics and sit around and wait for hand outs or do like a lot of guys and get on social security disability and just whine and coast through my life.
Instead what happened is what happened and I'm going to come out of it better and do the work so I have more options in my life.
As I have seen in life, yes most people choose poverty long term through self sabotage. You can give those self sabotaging people a million bucks and they would blow it and be back in poverty again. Look at all the Lotto winners, they blow it all and right back into poverty, sometimes worse than before.
Certainly, are there some folks that are truly disabled or so old they have no chance of work to improve their life? Yes and in that case if we throw some tax revenue their way, fine. But this other stuff of throwing money in the air everywhere like it's going to fix all these folks poverty is a joke, it doesn't work.