Why should rich countries have poor people?

[msc545]

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NOBODY SEEMS TO UNDERTSTAND THE QUESTION. IT IS WRITTEN IN SIMPLE English.

[DermalPunch]

Everything was created in pairs. We can't have rich without poor. The question should be "Why should rich countries rig the economy, legislation and various infrastructures in their favour so poor people can't get a fair shake?".

[msc545]

Why can't have rich without poor?

[msc545]

Rich countries have poor people because rich people want more money.

[torrahallo]

There is a rich country AKA rich rulers but no rich people AKA the poor labors who make up majority in United States 60% of Americans do not have a college degree and are poor or poverty level.

[OlderAndWiser]

"The rich rob from the poor" is an easy sociopolitical mantra to chant, but it is a hollow expression. If someone is poor, what is it that the rich person is robbing from him or her? Is it robbery if someone spends their life building a business and they pay the employees less than the owner's salary? Is that what people are calling "robbery?"

I think not. People are poor for several reasons.

Some people are poor because they are mentally ill.

Some people are poor because they are physically disabled.

Some people are poor because they have limited intellect.

Some people are poor because they are not motivated by money (quite often as a result of the culture in which they were raised,) they are lazy, or they are uncomfortable having any financial means.

A compassionate society would take care of the first three categories of poor people. But a compassionate society should not take care of people in the fourth category. And I believe that history strongly suggests that this category will always exist.

[OlderAndWiser]

@KingOfMe1 You don't know me. You don't know anything about me. You are operating on as assumption as if it must be true.

That is a very weak and inadequate response.

[KingOfMe1]

@OlderAndWiser You just gave a respond advertising your ignorance. If I say 2+2 = 5 Then you know im not very good at math. 99% of the population doesn't understand success. That's why very few have it and even fewer understand why they have it. Maybe you should question your own thinking. Maybe we all should.

[msc545]

You are responding to a question I didn't ask.

[OlderAndWiser]

I answered your question but perhaps you don't like the answer. You posted an update which says that nobody understands your question, so perhaps it is not expressed as clearly as you believe.

[msc545]

I agree the question could be clearer, but it is not totally confusing either.

[OlderAndWiser]

Then why don't you rephrase the question?

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

Because the rich are taking from the poor

[KingOfMe1]

They shouldn't and they don't have too. But school isn't designed to make you rich. Our whole lives we are not being trained to be rich. We are all trained to be workers. Work is the worst way to earn money. Yet 95+ percent are doing it. On top of that most of us never go get a mentor, even though we cannot afford not to have one. Our whole lives we're taught only by other workers... I've heard most welfare recipients are 4th 5th generation... It's not an accident. That's how the mind works. Your environment teaches you. School helps you learn how to gather knowledge but it doesn't really teach you all that much. Learning is displayed in behavior not knowledge.
Everyone in America should be earning at least 100k per year.

[BoopBoopBeep]

I do more than the guy that flips burgers for a living. I get paid more. There's always going to be rich and poor, it's just a matter of how much nuance we seek. Give everybody a million bucks it doesn't solve it. Pay everything the same wages it doesn't solve it.

[slatyb]

Yes, and your ability to do the job you do? Just luck. I'm well-paid as a software developer, with an upper class income although not presently wealthy. That's all luck too. I do my job and I'm conscientious about it, but it's just luck that I was born with the ability to do this work. It's luck that my parents paid my way through a good private college. It's very expensive now. It was affordable then.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoEezZD71sc

[BoopBoopBeep]

@slatyb Ok, for the sake of argument let's say that's 100% true. So what? As your employer I don't care that you can do 2x what Little Bobby can do. Genetics, luck, man's inhumanity towards man, I can't even pretend to care. You make twice the widgets you are twice as valuable to me. Everybody isn't smart enough to be a neurosurgeon. Everybody IS smart enough to flip burgers. I don't care why. I pay a premium go the guy drilling into my skull vs the guy that says do you want fries with that.

[BoopBoopBeep]

Ugh edit button... should have read "I don't care WHY you can do 2x..."

[lightbulb27]

They have poor because some people make poor decisions or are unfortunate or are unlucky in their choices or family support systems or traumas. People get stuck in those situations for decades or at the elder years, stuck and don't have the wherewithall to climb out.

They can care for their poor people to a high level, recondition them to be productive again and should.

I think when you separate such work from God it's less effective.

[Daniela1982]

You must be talking about the US. Because the rich pay few taxes while the middle class has to foot the bills. After awhile, they wind up poor too.

[red-lipstick-girl]

It's definitely a valid question, if a person is in a good country and is still a poor person, it means that person is either very lazy and does nothing or has an addiction to alcohol and invests his money in it.

[DarkLegacy]

Because a small group of people take all the wealth. Shit wages from rich companies

[exitseven]

So if you live in a rich country does that mean that everyone has to send you a nice big welfare check every month?

[msc545]

That is really not the question at all.

[Twalli]

Because if it's a country that is progressive enough it does not eliminate failure.

[Anonymous]

Because there will always be people who won't help themselves, and it is not the responsibility of hard working, self suffisient people to pay the way for people who won't help themselves.

[msc545]

No people are answering a question. I didn't ask. Read what I asked.

[provokeesmokee]

Now, hold on, are you suggesting communism?

[noohair]

Because humans are selfish.

[Anonymous]

Because somebody has to do the menial work.