I’m not poor because I’m lazy or stupid or uneducated..
Well there is something wrong! I’ve never heard of anyone who stays that way unless they want too..
Which is what I tell my youngest, he is a single 35 year old, and was dumb enough to drop out of HS in his Senior year the day he turned 18. Won’t get his GED, doesn’t want anything to do with the education process, not even tech school, where he would do good. So he is forced to live on the $15 an hr factory job, he has his state issue fork lift operators license, can do small welding jobs, but won’t go to tech school to make a better life for himself. So he lives on the edge of poverty constantly. He works his butt off at the job.
His oldest bro lost his high pay job due to 0’s Depression, took a pizza delivery job, worked his way up to manager and is working on district manager now. He is on the wrong side of 40, for today’s market. They keep their heads above water. And limited family to 1. They will not prosper as well as if had gone to business school. This is not the day and age when hard work pays off, it’s that piece of paper.