Does opression play a role in poverty?

Question

Not everybody is the same, so I ask you does opression and intolerance play a part in poverty? Keep in mind we have what we call a "working poor" and MANY educated people in poverty.

I agree Bradley. I think more people than you could possibly imagine look down on people who appear poor. When that happens they lose out on jobs, get treated badly, or whatever. Not to mention people don't take into account the social disadvantages the poor has. (Leads to futher oppression by you judgemental folks.) These things aren't looked at by the upper middle class and the rich. It is a never ending cycle, and it really is a form of opression. Most poor folks can't educations no matter how bad they want one. So, no you can't lay the blame squarley on the poor, opression from the upper class plays a roll as well.

Answer 1

Yes, it does, at least in my humble experience, living in the USA here...

I've been dirt poor all my life. Most of it hasn't been my doing. My father declared bankruptcy shortly before I was born. Both of my parents (long story told very short) were abusive and neglectful in their own special ways--and it left scars both physical and otherwise on me and all three of my sisters.

In spite of this, I worked from basically the time I was ten years old to *get the education*, get the grades, get the diploma, get to and through college and be the first one in my family to actually earn the bachelor's degree, in spite of my having to juggle work, school, and therapy for the last *Half* of my University education.

Did it help one bit? No. I had so-called Advisors *lying* to me for years on end about how practical my major was in the work force (not very, but I wasn't told the full truth until after my fourth year in). I had student loan sharks jumping the gun and running my grace period out while I was still in school (loopholes, they used one involving a semester where I had to drop out, and another where I had to drop to part time). And for years I was in deep-dish denial about how messed up I was, and between that and some 1980s political correctness about whether or not "men were ever survivors of abuse", I didn't get proper treatment for my difficulties until well *after* I graduated (up to my eyeballs in debt already, and after my mood disorders had made a *ruin* of my work history).

And after some 15+ years of struggle against my difficulties with both the poverty and the mood disorder, just as an adult, well, I *still* can't maintain proper treatment, because the local "mental health" center is so damned *obsessed* with this Cognitive Behavioral crap that it's become a cult that chases clients away, practically denying them access to medications if they don't want or need the *rubber band shackle* around the wrist.

So yeah. Have I made mistakes? Sure. I picked too easy a major after failing to have the math skills to make it as an engineer. I took it too easy in college. I could have tried harder to hold on to some of the jobs I walked away from in two, three months time....

But I am not lazy. I have worked, and have successfully held down full time work for six months at a time, only to have a *total lack* of any coverage of needed medications shut me out. As in I go from paying a minimal co-payment to paying some $200 a month and up for medications and counseling I *NEED* to stay stable enough *to work*. I get shafted by a system made by Rich Old Men, basically, who are utterly bigoted against folks like me, and think it's all "just laziness" or "just a flaw of character" when the proof is *there* that it isn't, in abundance.

So yeah. I've had to fight against a rising tide of intolerance in the workforce, for people like me who have the "wrong" kinds of problems.

And also....apparently, poor people *stink* now, even when we use soap, shampoo, toothpaste, deodorant, and mouthwash. Really, it's even showed up on Answers here...do a search for Questions related to "public transit", "riding the (city) bus", or "using mass transit". The open bigotry and hatred, some of it thinly disguised race-baiting by people of One Color against Another, is appalling. Apparently, if some Mall Brat thinks you "look poor", you "stink" no matter what you do.

As in I have *had* these Mall Brats openly threaten to get me kicked off the bus (playing the race card if need be), had them spray crap *on me* when I have already bathed, had them tell me "you look like a monkey", had them rant and rave and cuss at me *right there behind me* like I wasn't even there, and neither the bus driver nor any other *adults* on board said or did a damned thing.

And yes, I'm Caucasian. White. Go figure out the rest.

Point is.....after busting my hump for 30 *Years*, from the age of 10 to the age of 40, to get the damned College degree, and to try to work for my own money....nothing works. Nothing ever works.

And as much as people would *like me* to blame myself, I can't and *won't* do it anymore. I've had it. Sorry.

Too many people hate me, *openly hate me*, just for using complete *sentences* instead of one-word answers and SMS-ese, and that is just online. People *have openly hated me* since third grade for being "too smart, too ugly, too poor..." and on and on and ON and on....It's like, ok, my parents being nasty wasn't bad enough, oh no, now *God itself* has to paste the Cosmic "Kick me" sign on my forehead, just for the Almighty Sin of Not Sucking Up and Being the Ditch-Digger YOU People Want Me to Be.

Nothing I do is ever good enough for *any* of you. It never has been. Even here, people pick my Answers as best, over simple, fun, *harmless* Questions....just to *hate on me*, just to rip me a new one.

And you're asking me if "oppression and intolerance" play a part in my poverty?

Damn straight they do. I was *born* poor, raised poor...but all *your* bad attitudes have kept me that way, pretty much, and you aren't even good enough to admit it.

Whatever. I know, too long, too ranty, not enough cute SMS for ya. What. Ever. X-(

Answer 2

Yes, definitely. Religion, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status are the factors in why someone would be oppressed. Poor people are often oppressed. But, some poor people may not be as unhappy with their plight as you or I might be, so I try not to judge or pity them. However, this is the land of opportunity and there are more opportunities for people to change social classes in the United States than in some other countries.

Answer 3

yes poor people are always being oppressed by the rich.but when a poor man becomes educated and land a job with enough salary then he will be regarded as the same to rich people so educate your self and do not be contented with your being a poor man

Answer 4

the perfect way authorities can cut back proverty is with techniques from deregulation and staying out of ways. And with techniques from reducing classes like welfare that are designed entirely to save adverse human beings adverse so as that they are going to continuously vote Democrat. existence is about self-actualization. Giving human beings crutches prevents them from starting to be what they're meant to be. more advantageous suited to starve loose than strengthen fat in somebody else's debt.

Answer 5

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