What is the Point of Being Happy to Live In a Rich Country if You are Dirt Poor?

Question

With not a cent to your name and in debt to the tune of thousands of dollars? But proud anyway because your Country is rich regardless of the fact that you will slave for 40years doing petty work and geting no benefits whatsoever. Do you think that this is due to brainwashing?

Only asking to wake up the brainwashed thats all.

90% of all those in "RICH" countries slave over peanuts over 40 years. And that is why I mention it really.

I am actually talking you lot. It means you.

Answer 1

A very good question! Briefly, the 'brainwashing' is created by capitalist appeasement of (while exploiting) the working class you describe through imposition of consumerist values and destruction of class-consciousness where the majority believe themselves to belong to a vague 'middle class'. The point is that the wealth you describe, while produced by the working class, is hoarded by the bourgeoisie instead of being put to social use. We live in a world of super-abundance where 365 people own over 40% of the world's wealth. If there's a point to living in a capitalist country while belonging to the millions being exploited by this selfish and greedy system, it's to work to change it.

Answer 2

Yes. Brainwashing by the US to believe in the american dream that does not exist!!

Work all your life. Strive for the 'pot of gold', give your all to a country that does not even respect the fact that you fought in the war!! - Your brainwashed to think that the pittance you get as a pension IS a thank you... IS a recognition of what you have contributed to society...

There is no point being in a rich country when you are poor, this is why the crime levels increase..

Answer 3

You live in Kuwait or Saudi Arabia ? (only rich countries I know) All the rest have big cash flow but are operating in the red.
So how did you end up so far in debt ? Why will you have to do petty work ? Why will it take 40 years ?
If some of that debt had come from education you might have taken some money management courses or done some work study to avoid so much debt.
But good luck to you

Answer 4

I've been very "poor" in my time - but I've always eaten, always been warm, always had a roof over my head.

Consider the way some people in this world live - the mothers who have to choose between giving their babies infected water to drink, which may kill them, or letting them die of thirst. The little kids who have been a bandoned by their parents and get their food from rubbish dumps.

I don't care how much debt I get into, how much my standard of living may fall - no matter what happens my life will never, ever be that bad. That's because I live in the West, and I am extremely fortunate. I think we all tend to forget how lucky we actually are.

Answer 5

Dirt poor people cant get thousands in debt, we can't get the credit.
But most of us get a dole cheque, have a roof over our head, electricity and fresh clean water on demand, food, and a pension of some kind. We get housing benefit, council tax benefit and the chance to make a better life.
We rarely die of hunger or under nutrition.

My mates Mum lives in South America and there is no state pension or dole where she lives. She's 80 so how is she supposed to work?

Answer 6

Well, I think you should still be glad to live here, because even though many people are not well off, myself included, we do have things better than many. It is hard being in debt and it seems like it has become the American way and it is sad that credit card companies target people with little or no money and charge super higih interest rates, instead of giving them a break!

Answer 7

I do see your point, although the others don't seem to. I do think in the US, the poor do have better opportunities than in other countries, but, it's hard for the average joe to get wealthy without knowing the right people or being from a wealthy family. I have wealthy friends whose parents are willing and able to give them money to start businesses. My poor friends (from poorer families) with the same education level don't have those same opportunities, even if they may be more qualified to run a business. Even elite colleges (Harvard, Yale, Penn St., Stanford, etc) base most of their admission off of how much your family has donated, turning down poor students with better grades.

To truly make it if you are poor you need to either know the right people, or get a big break...the majority will slave away their whole life w/ minimal monetary rewards.

Answer 8

In reality, their is no point to being happy. And many people aren't. But they want to appear that way and I think that they think that living in a rich country is a way to fake happiness when they have nothing.
But I don't want to put words in anybody's mouth. If you really want the true answer, talk to someone in this situation.

Or better yet, donate to charity so we will be one step closer to having no one in this situtation. Remember that every penny and service counts toward something! :)

Answer 9

No, not brain washing. America is the land of oppurtunity, & to be dirt poor here is better than living almost anywhere else. Poor people in other countries don't have the freedoms everyone has here. And this is America, anything can happen here--even poor people can get rich overnight.

Answer 10

"People find their own level of Satisfaction wherever they are in life: Single - Working - Going to College, Married with Husband & Children, Well paid Job ... the list goes on & on. "

True Happiness & Contentment is really found in Jesus (mentioning for those who are Christ; do their best to live by the Bible by living right; and attend church services weekly).

I consider myself a happy person in this current life but; will be when I am gone from this Earth to join Christ Jesus, meet other family/friends that have passed on.