Well said!!!
I posted this on another thread - but in line with your comment on the $2000 flat screen TV.
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There is no ‘poverty’ in the US. Everyone has shelter, clothing, food, hot & cold running water, heat, lights, labor saving appliances, transportation, health care and entertainment.
An elderly neighbor and I were reminiscing on our childhood. Several siblings shared a tub of water to bathe. Food was never thrown out but served in sandwiches or in a stew. Clothing was hand-washed and hung on a line. Clothes were repaired & not donated to charity until outgrown. Water was drawn from a well. Heating from a wood stove and food baked in its oven. Walking was not an optional exercise - but transportation. Taxis & trains were a luxury reserved for family gatherings and funerals. Houses were small and well kept. Fresh vegetables came with dirt attached.
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Extremely well-said! I am not quite that old, but I do remember even a few decades ago a much different society. No credit cards, but lay-away. And Christmas clubs - put away a dollar or two a week for fifty weeks, and have money for gifts, plus interest. And I rarely see local teens pumping gas, cutting lawns, or working fast-food counters. Seems we’ve had to import all these workers from far flung lands, where English is not spoken.
But attitudes changed. I’ll never forget one time in college, it slowed hard and the building manager at my dorm asked some students if they wanted to earn some money by shoveling snow. The little punks said “no, that’s why we went to college.” Jerks. I was very angry, even at the time, about it.