so inextricably intertwined that poverty is a crime and great personal wealth is the ultimate good. Can we do anything to change this or don't we want to try.
2007-09-20 15:19:55 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Sociology
Financial well-being is one of the measurements of personal overall success in this society. Some people find it acceptable, others don't like that idea... usually depending on their own financial well-being.
2007-09-21 12:29:40 · answer #1 · answered by Michael S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is a difference between poverty and giving up.
I have been broke many times in life and each time within afew days, had a place to live, job and just started over.
Most people will not start at the bottom. They give up if not able to walk into a top paying job.
Starting at the bottom, you make impressions, contacts and start moving up. If you are not a terrible person and somewhat talented, someone will see that and open a door or two.
No one wants to help a defeated person. No one wants to sit next to one, live near where they sit, or think about them.
I owe them nothing and that is what they get.
Is it a crime, no, but when you will not work and have no income, you tend to steal, beg and loitter.
When I get up sith no breakfast to go find a job and then get that job, they take money out of my paycheck to pay for government plans set up to help people who cannot help themself. It is a pity that it also helps those who will not help themselves.
Take away all of the surreal reality that obscures the truth. Pic ture being on a deserted island . Just you and another person. There is no money and nothing to buy. If you want to eat, you have to look and find food, want fire, got to gather wood and build and care for the fire.
Now this other person will not help you at all but wants to have the same things you have. How long would you let that go on, or would you group yourself together with this person and do everything for them since they wont help themself?
When I see a bum and he asks me for money, I always acted confused, make eye contact and say'"I don't understand, how can you have no money at all?" I have never gotten a response once.
I have given money, but only when I decided to, not when they asked or tried to stand at a on ramp and guilt it out of me.
It is one thing to help a person, but it only prolongs their misery as they are content to get that dollar and wait for the next sucker to come buy and either feel guilty or fear and give them another dollar.
I have seen a sign that says, I would rather beg than steal. What about rather work than beg. Did the thinking go wrong> NO. It was a clever sentence constructed to play on a few different emotions than you normally have to when walking by a sign holding grown man.
2007-09-20 22:51:40 · answer #2 · answered by Father Ted 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah its sad...the rich wealthy are hoarding 80-90% of the nations money and the govt supports that....I am moving to canada I think here sometime soon
2007-09-20 22:43:46 · answer #3 · answered by stallion 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, money and morality have nothing to do with each other and never had. . .There are many moral persons that are not rich and many rich people that are not moral.
2007-09-21 01:31:23 · answer #4 · answered by towanda 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋