Why are the poor sometimes called the "less fortunate"?

Question

Are we to believe that it all has to do with "fortune" or "luck"? Wealthy people were just "lucky"? They had nothing to do with their own success by hard work?

So, should poor people believe that they cannot create their own fortune? When opportunity knocks, should they bother opening the door? After all, it's all "luck" and "fortune", not hard work and innovation, right?

Answer 1

Less fortunate is a politically correct term to refer to the poor concocted by Liberals. Liberals believe life is a zero sum game. ie. if I am wealthy and successful it means I gained my wealth at someone else’s expense. Unlike India no one is this country is born permanently into a "caste system". In America every individual has the ability to rise above their situation in life.

Answer 2

Tell Donald Trump he's just lucky. Trump succeeded in almost all he has tried in life, even from his schooldays. It had nothing to do with luck. Ask Bill Gates if he was "lucky" for coming up with the ideas for software programs and Microsoft.

Many people fall through the safety net, through the cracks. Not everyone has a good job, is successful, has a place to live, makes more than $5.15 an hour flipping hamburgers. You are sterotyping a group of people when poverty in this nation has increased in the last 6 years. Yeah, we have great unemployment figures, but when the minimum wage is only $5.15 and you want a better job & can't find one, don't blame Joe or Jane for going on welfare. It's a better deal to feed the family until they can better themselves. Unfortunately not everything is black or white, much is gray and hidden. Some people need a lift not a push. Remember that if you ever have the unfortunate moment of hitting bottom yourself.

Answer 3

Statistically speaking, the majority of those who are wealthy were born that way, that is, they inherited their wealth from wealthy family members. These are the "more fortunate" to whom the "less fortunate" are compared. Of course it is possible for hard work to change a person's circumstances, but we must acknowledge that it will be more difficult for a person who begins life as a poor person to do that.

Answer 4

No because a lot of opportunities require certain things to get in, aka, "you have the opportunity to become a lawyer.... you just need to get money for law school." You have the opportunity to make a lot of money if you invest in this , but you need XX dollars... A lot of rich ppl are rich because they have earned it, some have gotten it giving to them, and sure some poor people don't try hard and deserve to be poor, were as some people work their *** off and get screwed all their lives... So basically there are people whom are less fortunate than you, and it is callus to say they are poor because they are lazy.

Answer 5

fortune is not the same as luck... It is not a sinonym. Wealthy people are just wealthy and thus with fortune, or fortunate. Less fortunate meaning without wealth or not so wealthy. Neither have anything to do with luck. However, if by luck you win the lottery then you are lucky and wealthy...

I hope you lots of ?wealth? doesn't sound right... I hope you lots of luck....

Answer 6

Hey man, you're probably an intelligent person, but you're way off base on this issue . There are many 'less fortunate' people who are poor, but not due to their own efforts . Although I'm very harsh at times, I do understand the plight of many .

Having said that, there are also people who earned poverty .

Answer 7

I think you should just be who you are. There's nothing wrong with you. Maybe instead of changing yourself you should change friends if it bother you so much that they make fun of you. What is acting white? I've always been offended when people would said that to me (I'm black). I don't hang out with those people anymore because the way think you should act is always some stereotype of another race. They are not listening to you when you tell them how you feel so you've done all you can do. There are plenty of people who would accept you as you are.

Answer 8

It is just a politically correct statement used as to not insult or verbally degrade people who would feel that they are poor. Calling someone poor can a little insulting, but calling them less fortunate sounds better and is not insulting at all.

Answer 9

Ok lets compare here. I was born in a wealth suburb in southern california. My parents make over 300k a year. I currently attend a UC fully paid for by my parents and shcoalarships and grants i recieved by my merit. I do not recieve a cent of financial aid from the us government because they deem my paernts to have too many assets. Growing up I had daycare, healthare, afterschool programs, sat classes, tutoring, summer camps, and sports. My parents are immigrants from indai who went to the University of Illinois and worked theire asses off to make what they have. Now lets compare that to the average black kid in compton. his mother isnt home because shes off working three jobs to pay for reant and food, his dad is probaly in jail. his schools have overcrowded clasrooms with teachers that dont care and books that are ten years old that are falling apart. There is nothing of the specail programs that I mentioned above. He coems home and is raissed by the telvesion while there are gangs and drugdelers outside of his house. They are all making money and he sees this, bNow lets say he does do well in school. He wont have sat class, he wont get into as good of schools as I did, and he wont ahve as good of hjob offers that I will when i graduate. Now does that seem less fourtunat to you. i count my blessings because i know that there are kids like that everywhere. Their parents work harder and at more tedious jobs than our parents. So you should count your blessings too instead of complaing but like a typical conservative you are you think america has no porblems and dont realize that poverty it caused by laziness

Answer 10

Open your eyes, genius. Most "successful" people inherited some form of capital. Most "unsuccessful" people inherited problems. The average person's lot in life is determined by the circumstances under which they are born. Sure, some people rise, and some people fall, but the great 95% just do what people around them do.