If you set up a system where there have to be winners and losers and then you rig it so that more and more people must lose, is it fair to blame the losers for their loss? Is it fair to blame the winners for winning? Be it luck or skill or hard work, somebody has to win and somebody has to lose and when you get too many angry losers, things go badly. And face it, losers tend to get angry. It's hard not to be when they see how easy life seems for the winners and there seems to be no way to turn things around.
I'm not saying people who are poor didn't make some bad decisions, but increasingly, it seems to take fewer and fewer bad decisions.
I think we can all agree that you can't pray the poor away. Things seem on track to become more and more divisive. I don't think I'm the only one who finds this scary as heck.
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2 comments:
Oh hell, it's easy to become poor. Much easier than to become wealthy. In fact, you can be doing everything exactly the way your supposed to, and STILL become poor in a heartbeat.
Jay
One problem I see is that there are fewer degrees to winning than there used to be. Before my folks split up, we were your average middle class family living on a single income in a nice 3 bedroom home and getting new cars every couple of years. That was winning, and it wasn't necessary to earn hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to live that well.
Another problem I see is that there is less margin for error than there used to be. In these times, so many live hand to mouth, paycheck to paycheck, and in debt. All it takes is one hiccup and things get scary.
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