A colleague stated to an individual during a panel interview, "no matter how much money you make, you will always find ways to spend it, so you'll die in debt, having never been satisfied?" Do you agree with this statement? Explain your answer. Lastly, do you believe ethnicity has anything to do with ones place economically in todays society?
2007-01-11 11:30:44 · 6 answers · asked by Tiawan 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
I don't think that is how it is all the time, but the person who has lived paycheck to paycheck all their life might not feel the doors ever open to make it any different. I was born naked and poor and will die naked and poor. I struggled to get a high school education, married, had kids, divorced and had to raise my kids alone. I never owned my own house and struggled every year to feed my kids, put clothes on their backs and keep a roof over our heads. There was no one to turn to. I couldn't see getting more education for myself, I just wanted them to get an education. I am caucasian. There is discrimination in many forms. I believe I have been paid less for being a woman, I think now that I am older I am being discriminated against due to my age. I have plenty of experience in the jobs I apply for, but they never even call me in for an interview. And they wonder why so many women with children and the elderly are homeless.
People living from one paycheck to the next don't have enough money to do anything BUT use it all and sometimes they have to go in debt. If you work, you have to have a car,(unless you live on a bus line, my town doesn't have a bus line) then you have to have insurance, tags, buy gas, you have to pay rent, electricity, water, buy groceries to live. You can do without a phone, TV or the internet, but even paying for just those necessities for living it costs more than some people make. Debt is inevitable sometimes. Ethnicity is irrelevant, in my opinion.
2007-01-11 11:54:33 · answer #1 · answered by hopeful 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would have to agree in most cases. People who live in that way usually can't send their children to college therefore the children are for the most part uneducated and fall into the same economic class of their parents. Sad, but true. I beleive ethnicity has some to do with economic standing in today's society because the cycle just continues.
2007-01-11 14:31:06 · answer #2 · answered by princezzjin 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't agree. If you've grown up that way, yes, there is a greater chance that you will inherit any bad money management that you witnessed, but that's not an automatic life sentence for you. If you're determined enough, you can go to school, to college and get a good job and learn ways to mange money and you don't have to fall into that cycle. Education is the key. You may not have the money to go to school, but there are ways...loans, grants, scholarships. You just have to have the ambition in life to better yourself. People do it all the time. You just have to free your mind of the "victim" mentality. No, I don't believe athnicity has anything to do with it. Again, education is key and not playing the role of victim. Go to school, don't drop out. Go to college any way you can. Get a decent job and get yourself out of the situation. You DON"T have to participate in the cycle.
2007-01-11 11:37:33 · answer #3 · answered by First Lady 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No way. I'm living proof. In 1972 I was living in a 1 room studio in downtown Manhatten. I was able to retire at age 51 in 2002.
You can change your stars.:-)
2007-01-11 11:35:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, i used to live check to check but when i got rid of those credit cards life was a lot easier.
2007-01-11 11:34:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
my first answer is no because life is like 4 x 100 relay i will be exhausted after i have passed the batton.second answer is no
2007-01-11 11:55:05 · answer #6 · answered by blackrhino_67 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋