Yeah. It’s fairly common for people to note that America doesn’t actually have “poor” people. Our poor people have cell phones, cable TV and Facebook accounts.
If we want people to work, we should probably strive to make poverty less desirable. I don’t like EBT cards. I like bags of rice, bags of beans and boxes of cheese distributed once a month. Somebody wants “stuff”? They should get a job.
>>Yeah. It’s fairly common for people to note that America doesn’t actually have “poor” people. Our poor people have cell phones, cable TV and Facebook accounts.
>>If we want people to work, we should probably strive to make poverty less desirable. I don’t like EBT cards. I like bags of rice, bags of beans and boxes of cheese distributed once a month. Somebody wants “stuff”? They should get a job.
I agree. It’s too easy to be comfortably poor in the USA. Get some skills and do work under the table and you can live like a king and still be “poor”.
That’s right; at this point life on the dole gets you the same standard of living, in the same ghettos, as people working low-wage jobs (and they just end up tired). I believe that is what is driving the push to increase the minimum wage; rather than cut freebies (political suicide in some areas), they’d rather just make it worthwhile for someone to work low-wage jobs by giving them a slightly better standard of living than the gibsmedats.
Yes we have “obese poor”, think about it!
Throughout history until now a logical impossibility.
Historically thin meant unfed ergo poor, fat meant well fed ergo rich. In some sense our civilization should be congratulated we have solved the problem of the “poor”, but there has been a cultural cost as well as economic one.