Quote (addone @ Dec 2 2021 03:37am)
Poverty is a choice for like 99.999% of the USA and you are given or at least the tools and knowledge is available to those who wish to make a good comfortable life for themselves.
What are you talking about? Poverty is a generational thing that can be linked to zip code and the primary determinant is what your parent's level of education is. I work with two doctors whose fathers and grandfathers are doctors. Being a medical doctor runs in that family. Being a bipolar alcoholic with a diminished life span runs in mine and I've never had a living grandpa and my parents died young as fuck, my dad dropped out of high school and had to take care of himself at 16. I'm the first person in my family to ever go to college and I hope my kids aren't as fucking poor as I was, because there were times we didn't have toilet paper and had to wipe our ass with newspapers we collected and we ate things my dad shot off of trees or by the river like squirrels and rabbits.
I work with people who live outside and who just don't have the tools to get anywhere else, even with a lot of help. One guy had a bad disability from jumping out of a tree onto a deer in this old hunting technique and breaking his shoulder. If he had any good fucking tools to escape poverty would he be jumping out of trees on enormous animals with spikes growing out of their fucking heads?
What an enormously privileged thing to say. Only a young white kid from the suburbs would believe this lol.
Some people are pretty fucked no matter what you do. Being attractive helps a lot and affects peoples' willingness to help you.
This post was edited by Skinned on Dec 2 2021 07:01am