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Just a note to those suggesting things like work ethic and education (which are valuable, no doubt): you're offering suggestions for how an individual can make the jump from poverty. But unless your assumption is that if everyone were a hard worker and well-educated, there would be no poverty (i.e. no low wage work to be done), then there are large structural components missing here.
Wrong assumption...what I'm suggesting is that parents aren't parenting....they're leaving that up to the State.
Just a note to those suggesting things like work ethic and education (which are valuable, no doubt): you're offering suggestions for how an individual can make the jump from poverty. But unless your assumption is that if everyone were a hard worker and well-educated, there would be no poverty (i.e. no low wage work to be done), then there are large structural components missing here.
Wrong assumption...what I'm suggesting is that parents aren't parenting....they're leaving that up to the State.
I've been on my soap box long enough on this forum about teen pregnancy, but it's something I deal with daily, and something that people in my community refuse to acknowledge. Unwed motherhood is the number one cause of poverty.
One of my teen mom students wrote an essay about where she'd like to go on vacation. She said in 7 years she would like to go to Disney World with her daughter and hoped that HER MOM would have enough money by then. She just graduated from high school and has NO PLANS for herself or her baby's daddy to take care of this baby. Not now; and not in SEVEN YEARS. Scary.
Good points.I guess part of that is how do we define poverty. Id like to see the ideas people come up with.
The root cause of entrenched poverty is a lack on money in the first place.
Now before you start telling me to get serious consider the fact that:
IT TAKES MONEY TO MAKE MONEY in a society based on the system we call CAPITALISM.
Note that we do not call our system WORKISM, or PRODUCTIVISM, or LABORISM?
That's kinda a CLUE about what bullshit walks and what bullshit talks in this society, is it not?
Of course, there will always be the cases of the po' boy who through luck and pluck made it big, but those are the exceptions to the normal human condition, not the rule.
Remember, if we could ALL be Bill Gates or Warren Buffet there would be no Bill Gates or Warren Buffets.
Of course there are bad teachers. Just like any other profession. But I teach high school and while I have a few bad thoughts about some of these parents, it still makes me sad that there are some students that are not only apathetic toward education, they are hostile toward it.
But if I still believe in the power of an education to change circumstances. Otherwise, I would have spit back a long time ago. lol
Precisely my point. The welfare state encourages poverty as a means to control the people.
Poverty and wealth are relative terms which are predicated on a given living standard. E.g., poverty in the U.S. is relative luxury in some parts of the world.I guess part of that is how do we define poverty. Id like to see the ideas people come up with.
Under your assumption, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, France, Germany would be poor states full of poor lazy people, while El Salvador, Somalia, or the Central African Republic would be states with less poverty because welfare systems don't exist there. Yeah, it doesn't make any sense and it isn't the case.
Under your assumption, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, France, Germany would be poor states full of poor lazy people, while El Salvador, Somalia, or the Central African Republic would be states with less poverty because welfare systems don't exist there. Yeah, it doesn't make any sense and it isn't the case.
and what's their tax rate?
FAIL....and I don't mean that in a bad way...
There's one thing you left out. Their citizens are taught from an early age to have good work ethics(as I alluded to in an earlier post) to support themselves and their welfare State.
Here in America where in excess of 20 trillion dollars has been thrown at the poverty problem since the 1940's.....yet it still exists and in fact has increased!!!! Now...explain that.