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Originally Posted by Inkstain82
Most of the time, people are poor because they don't know how to make good choices. Being good with money is an acquired skill, and if your parents are poor, their parents are poor, your friends are poor and your neighbors are poor, who is going to teach you?
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Exactly. That is my point. Swanson, that is great that you managed to overcome your situation growing up. It sounds like you are an American success story. That being said, it is inappropriate to take your personal situation and apply that to everyone else.
Besides that, I heard somewhere ( I have no idea if this is true or not) that for capitalism to work, someone has to be poor. That makes sense to me. I mean, if everyone was rich, who would do the crappy low-paying jobs that we need people to do? So it really isn't fair to be constantly demonizing poor people, when we rely on them for our own lifestyles.