Poverty is a Lifestyle Choice, 1 of 2

Poor people in America CHOOSE to be poor. There are lots of opportunities for wealth, but not everyone wants to work 60 hours a week. In fact, a lot of poor people don't want to work more than 20 hours a week... Some of them don't even want jobs!!! Can you imagine?...

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• Ayn
• Rand
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• Peikoff
• Brandon
• Cropper
• poor
• poverty
• sociology
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• class
• economic

[ZeppelinRocker16]

Right...

My mother and father work their asses off and are on call night and day. We live in a two bedroom apartment in a slowly decaying neighborhood and yet, even after them working their ass off, sometimes relinquishing sleep, we still have trouble paying our bills.

Tell me, do you just argue against the imagined poor people in your mind? You have no idea what the hell you're talking about.

Go fuck yourself.

[reed0x]

You should see a doctor about that copy of atlas shrugged that's jammed in your rectum.

[wolftreetree]

blaming the victim

[Judy101101]

you are amusing - you sound totally insane - you have zero sense of responsibility or accountability lol man do you need to be schooled lol

[love83forever]

What hope do they have after fixing the house in the ghetto...their children may still get shot.

[jorge1977arg]

Your video is great, I really liked it; you have a clearminded view of what poverty is.

Nevertheless, it seems to me that your speech is mainly based on the reality of developed countries. Do you think that poor people are to blame in those countries where interventionist governments, conflicts, devaluations of the currency, etc. keep stifling any effort to earn a living in a decent way? Don't you believe there is another kind of poverty and that it is caused by unchecked states? Thank you!!

[MrKurtfinn]

In the lower class their values and norms are different from the middle class. Middle class values are based around material security. Lower class values are based around human relationships. They are focused more on survival rather than taking care of things. Trust me, all the people who say he's full of shit have NEVER been around poor people. So shut up! I've been poor and you HAVE to act that way beecause that's how things are done.

[daobagua]

@MrGentlemanly OR didn't appreciate the unnecessary racism at the end of the vid.

[daobagua]

@cropperb And yet you can afford to go to university. I am sure that is what I would considerer poor. While I would agree that the government should not be buying houses for everyone. I think your idealism is laudable. People are partly due to their decisions, partly due to their parents, partly to do with their family history, genetics, class of upbringing, etc.

Also, i do not understand why you felt the need to mention the ethnicity of every "lazy" person in the slum. Give your head a shake.

[angrydead]

@MrGentlemanly either that or intelligent.

[angrydead]

@MrGentlemanly either that or 'intelligent'.

[paintergrl12]

I have worked with poor people for well over a decade. I think that we have to stress that there are exceptions to every rule. The best way I've heard to explain this phenomenon is "external and internal locus of control". I believe that people stay poor who have an external locus of control, which means that they are only motivated by gratifying the needs of the moment. People with internal locus of control are able to see consequences and delay gratification, which gets them ahead.