You think poor people are Lazy?

Question

Most working poor I know (under $10 a hr) work about 70 hrs a week. The middle class and rich dont even put in 40.

If you think poor people are lazy, would you be where you are without your inheritance, family to pay your living expenses wile you went to school? Did you even pay your own tuition? Were you in the Military? Friggin' hypocrits.

Answer 1

agreed for the most part... some in the middle class also work very hard... but no harder than the poor I know...

most who say that haven't ever ventured out of their social class for more than a few hours... in other words... they have no idea what they are talking about and say that because it validates their existance and work...

they are saying "they deserve that, and I deserve this"... even though they can't really explain why or how in detail... they think they know though...

Answer 2

um... no. I don't think poor people are lazy at all. So please spare me the abuse and address it to people who actually think that!

I don't think all well-off people became well-off only by inheritance and not working, they may be working more, but at the same time you are right, maybe they became rich because of their education (which was paid for), but then still work hard, I really think there are very few people on the planet who can be rich and not work (like Paris Hilton :P)

At the same time, my grandmother has always been a very poor farmer in an infertile area, working all day all year and is now a very poor pensioner. Is she lazy? Hell no, she is the most hard working person I know. My uncle has been working to a building site in order to study. Is he hard working? Yes. Is he better off? Yes. Is he rich? No. I have had some of my education paid for (and still not all of it, I got some funding because of being hard working!). Will I ever become rich? No way.

So stop thinking in this binary way there are middle class people who are lazy and there are middle class people who are hard working. I guess your point is, do people think that poor people are poor because they are lazy? Well the ones who think that are not very clever. But I'm not one of them and I'm not a friggin' hypocrit, ok?

Answer 3

The middle class probably works anywhere from 30-50 hours a week, and there are exceptions to everything (A doctor making a few hundred thousand a year could easily work 60-80 hour weeks). You will have a lot of people argue with you on that, but most people seem to think that they are a class higher then they actually are, for example believing they are middle class when they are actually working class.


As of 2000, roughly half of all Americans thought the biggest cause of poverty was personal laziness, probably the half that never had to really struggle. Despite what others seem to think, we don't all start at the bottom, and very very few people actually end up in a different social class than their parents, that includes both upward and downward social mobility.

Answer 4

O.K. Lets say that it's true that poor people are working 70 hours a week and make roughly 8 dollars an hour ( $2.00 less than what you put) that makes them earning around $560.00 a week that's $2,240 a month and $26, 880 a year!!

Now lets say the middle class is working 40 hrs. a week with the average pay of 15.00 per hour.. that's $600.00 per week $2,400 a month and $28,800 per year!

That's a difference of about $1,920 dollars a year. That wouldn't really make them poor if they made only that much less than the middle class. Sure I know they are putting in the more time, but that's the price you pay if you want to improve the standard of life. I'm sure these middle class people who are putting in less time but earning more either 1. got an education 2. worked hard to get there or 3. just got lucky

So It's not a debate that poor people are physically lazy they are mentally unmotivated! A lot of times poor people fall into habits that consume their hard earned money and that's what keeps them in from advancing to a better standard of life.

Answer 5

The rich are greedy and have a self entitlement beyond reason- They look at others as commodities to be used

Your only a prospective labouer to them - and they seem to think that you owe them that labour

The middle class aka the working class supply riches for the rich and social programs for subsitance for the poor . They support both the bottom and the top - They get little reward for thier labour and are exploited at all levels

The poor are often the working class

The poor who refuse or cannot work have a massive self entitlement and look at others as a mere commodity - They seem to think you owe them a dollar or a coffee - They use other people as mere commodities


Niether the top or the bottom of society are necesary to the economy or to anything else In fact both are a burden - that said the bottom is less of a burden because they cost less to the middle class - The wealthy in the nation teach the middle to hate the bottom "no good welfare bums etc - when oddly what they take out of society is a drop in the bucket compared to the orginised theft of the wealthy

The rich and the poor have more or less the same personality structure

Sad

Answer 6

Wow, you obviously don't know how to make money. Sure, they work 70 hours a week--they'd have to if they're going to settle for under ten bucks an hour...

Most of the people that I know (who you would consider "rich") put in way, way, way more than "40 hours" a week. Closer to 60 or 70, as you claim.

It's just that they make around $100/hour... so that works out to be about $7,000 a week instead of $700 a week.

But that doesn't make one rich. What makes one rich is what you keep, not what you earn.

I never said that "poor people are lazy" ... it's just that they settle with being poor and accept it.

Answer 7

Not all poor people are lazy, and there aren't very many rich people who put in 40 hours a week or less. Most of them work even when they are at home, and are accessible by phone at family functions, during dinner, in the middle of the night etc.

Answer 8

That is a broad brush you paint with there. I think there are an inordinate number of people on entitlement programs that could be working. That being said, my heart goes out to the single mom working for minimum wage and trying to raise a family. I came from a lower middle class family – spent 22 years in the military – paid for my own college – have a good job (one of those 40 an hour week things) and give better than 20% of my income to charities – not including what the government gets for entitlement programs through my taxes. I think I have the right to say if someone makes bad choices that it is their choice but at my time in life – I have a pretty good track record at calling those things.

"A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living."
- John F. Kennedy

Answer 9

Totally not. Of course SOME are as some rich people are lazy too. However, the rich and poor are socialized totally different and most poor people actually work 10 times harder than say, the upper middle class.

Answer 10

It wouldn't hurt the world to be a bit more civilized. I worked while I went to school I took nothing from my family or parents. They had little to give. I lived in my car during spring and fall classes so I could pay tuition. (homeless I guess they would call it now) I was just embarrassed to be like that. Never told anyone. Never asked for help. After I graduated I joined the military and served my country because I felt like I should give service to such a wonderful country that gave me the opportunity to learn and get ahead. Now, I'm proud to call myself a Republican and no snot nose, know nothing, punk like you will tell me differently. If you want to help the poor, you should cut taxes. When my taxes are cut I hire people. Go ahead and raise taxes on the rich again. I'll lay more people off. Then you can blame the rich again for something you and your fellow Democrats created. I don't think poor people are lazy. I think they see no hope in life, because people like you took that from them.

Answer 11

No, not at all.

Although, as a member of the middle class, I'd *love* to know where you came up with that stat. I work 40 hours a week, nine months a year. I don't work in the summers because my husband works his butt off so that I don't have to. *He* puts in a minimum of 80 hours a week. He works full-time AND runs 2 small businesses.

My parents qualify as rich - now - but they sure as hell didn't start out that way, and they worked a lot more than 40 hrs a week to get there.

*SOME* poor people *are* lazy. So are some rich people. I think we completely screw our working poor in America, and that it's non-partisan - both sides screw them pretty equally.

I would far rather my tax dollars went to help the working poor than to pay some ho to sit on her *** and pop out kids like puppies. We *owe* it to our working poor to take care of them - they are, after all, productive members of society.

When I used to wait tables, before I got married, I had a conversation with the restaurants accountant about the fact that I had *no* health insurace and didn't make enough to survive on my own, if I would have gotten pregnant, I would have had to quit my job. Why? Because I certainly didn't make the kind of money that could pay for a baby out of pocket, but according to the government, I made too much to qualify for assistance.

I know a guy in Anchorage. He and his wife both work their butts off, and they aren't quite poor, but they're just starting out. Anyhow, she recently had a baby, and neither of her jobs will pay her maternity leave. She wanted to file for assistance, just for the time she's off work with the baby, but the govt refused to help her. Why? Because she told them she certainly does plan on returning to work.

Our system is broken, and I don't think *anyone* in power cares enough to fix it.