I have experienced nearly everything on that list, barring maybe 4 items. I still experience quite a few of them. It’s called LIFE and you’re right, he’s a whiner.
When my wife from Mexico first came to visit me in MN (as my girlfriend) she was surprised at how I lived because I told her I was poor. She said “how can you say you are poor?” You have a car, your apartment has lots of furniture and you eat at McDonalds regularly.
A few years after getting married, we went on a mission to India. She then said “I think I have sinned in thinking I was poor all my life. Maybe my house was tiny, but at least I didn’t sleep on the sidewalks like those families. Maybe, I had to eat beans and tortillas every day, but at least I never went hungry!”
“It’s called life ...”
Dittoes. And nothing lasts forever. That $8 per hour job he whines about could lead to somethng better — if he is reliable, dependable, a good worker, shows up on time and sober, gets along well with others, doesn’t complain.
If not, he might have to look in the mirror or listen to himself talk to get a clue why he’s stuck.
Same here. Lots of “poor people” started that way, like me, but only a fool doesn’t try to improve their lot in life. I always get angry about the statistics that show how poverty hasn’t improved in 40 years because the poor are getting poorer. Hardly anyone is poor their entire lives, unless they are on the multi-generational welfare gravy train and didn’t do squat to make it better for themselves and their kids. Something is wrong with you if you still have a 40 year old black & white TV with rabbit ears. Our poor have a hell of a lot more than even middle class people did in 1970.
"Hi, Mr. Writer! I own a small business. I match most of what you said on that there list of yours, so I'm thinking I'm poor.
"If so, then why am I being taxed as if I were rich?"
Someday, one of those lists will cross that line...