You know the biggest irony of so called “champions of the poor”… I’m wondering how many of them actually lifted a finger.
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To be clear, I’m not necessarily a champion of the poor in this country, who really aren’t that poor relative to the truly poor in some other countries. My help, in the form of money, goes outside this country.
My suggestion that we improve the environment for the “poor” in this country has more to do with the country as a whole than the poor themselves. If we could manage to turn welfare recipients and gang members into college graduates, the whole country would be better off.[/quote]
I’m not even talking about the poor…
Based on the “poor” people that I’ve had the opportunity to interact with, they fight hand and fist every day doing crap they don’t want to do and try to improve their situation. They don’t blame anyone or feel anyone owe them anything. Clearly, they aren’t “lazy”, nor do they feel “self entitled”. They put the effort into improve themselves, as anyone else who isn’t “lazy” too.
See, I think there’s this misconception going on in America that some extreme political indoctrination has led you to believe…. I don’t think the majority of the people lack sympathy and compassion for “poor” people. Quite the contrary.,I think most of america have compassion for the “poor” who actively try to get out of their shithole.
I think where people have lack of sympathy and compassion are towards the ones that seem to leech off of entitlements at the expense of both people paying for the benefits and real poor people that need the benefits. People who don’t give a shit, and have given up even without trying. I think the lack of disgust and lack of compassion is also the product of people who continue to try to make excuses, blame on others, and instill this sort of learned helplessness mentality, and excuses for why people aren’t/shouldn’t try or excuses for why giving up is ok.
Before you deny that is happening, I see this every day. One small example. STEM professions. It usually goes like this….People say all the time to younger people
1. “why bother getting a STEMS profession, because everything is outsourced anyway…Blame outsourcing..” (FACT, young people with some STEMs are doing pretty well)
2. “not everyone can do STEMs since not everyone will be good in it”… (FACT, you don’t have to be really good to do ok.. Heck my 6th grade math teach told me I was total fvckup and should never do STEMs)
3. “not everyone wants to do STEMs”. Ok fine. But if STEMS gets paid X and something else gets paid Y, don’t bitch if Y < X. (And that applies to anything other than STEMS. Real estate brokers probably do much better than most STEM people. I don't complain about it.)
No one owes anyone a damn thing. Now if for someone that thinks that way, and have given up, and resort to feeling like a "victim", it doesn't matter... No matter what anyone does for them , they aren't going to succeed with that mentality.
And if anyone has that mentality and is in a position of influence either to people of their peers or people younger than them, then congratulations on destroying any shred of hope and accomplishment that those people ever will have. Congratulations, you just taught them how to fail even before they started the race.
If someone(s) have the mentality that someone else owe's them something, they have already lost. They're playing the victim card and have a "learned helplessness" mentality, and it's a crutch.
And plenty of it goes around these days of the "victim mentality"
It's not a lack of compassion or sympathy whatsoever. It's a simple disgust for a self destruction mentality that some people insist on instilling on others..The idea giving up even without trying which frankly, imho, is wrecking this country. Because this sort of mentality is contagious.
You can't guarantee or be guaranteed success.
But people's mentality sure can guarantee their failure.
And lastly, if everyone actually spent the time to help someone else instead of expecting someone else to help them, maybe more people wouldn't be in such a shithole
