The poors’ responsibility to America - Shift your mindset just a little. Poverty, like wealth, is a state of mind. The most expensive lifestyle in the world is poverty - it takes every cent you have to maintain it. That, in itself, acts as incentive to escape the grasp of poverty. Or it should.
Charles Dickens wrote of poverty and its stultifying effects on the human condition nearly two centuries ago, and seeing that stark picture in one’s mind, is enough to cause the cold willies in almost everybody. He also delineated the Micawber Principle, based upon this observation:
“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds nought and six, result misery.”
Spend less than you make. That has always made sense throughout history.
Nothing has changed.
An erudite response! Thanks!