Poverty is a Lifestyle Choice, 2 of 2

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• Ayn
• Rand
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• Leonard
• Peikoff
• Brandon
• Cropper
• poor
• poverty
• sociology
• crime
• lifestyle
• class
• economic

[DethMachineEngage]

"ppl need motivation thats all, if you live in poverty from generation to generation to generation, it's learned and yes they will become lazy because thats all they know!!!!!!!!!! so how do they get out of it?"

Take a good look at the victims of Katrina. A crap load of them were on welfare.

[cropperb]

How do poor people get out of poverty?

Move to a free country and work. Or if you already live in America, get a job.

[bobomber]

"Poverty is the worst form of violence."  -Gandhi

[cropperb]

I heard Gandhi liked to give enemas to people who he met and liked. It sounds crazy, so maybe the person telling it was just a Freudian. Was Gandhi Freudian? Where was he educated?

[cropperb]

Since when do CEOs not work? They put in 50 or 60 or 70 hours a week. They need a raise. As for Paris Hilton, I don't pay her a thing, so its none of my business.

I'm in favor of freedom, not enforcement of some arbitrary policy.

[stevemjb]

The burden class reproduces at a higher rate than the productive class so a time will come when the latter can not afford to house and feed these degenerative types. There will simply be too many for our taxes to bare. Philosophies like these will then be enacted, the burden class will be controlled, nearly fazed out, and the good people of the world will regain a foothold, much wiser for the wear. I'm optimistic.

[eksortso]

You're right on the ball, Cropper. I know it because I've lived it. I've been the lazy one, and I'm still paying for it. I've been the enthusiastic worker, and it's paid me back huge dividends.

I've read plenty of Objectivist writings (not Pope Peikoff!) so I know that digging out of a chosen poverty doesn't take a top-down approach, it takes inner drive and reasoned action. Baby steps at first, yeah, but you gotta walk before you can run away. That's what you really gotta do. And me too.

[eggory]

Throughout most of history there wasn't enough food being produced by anyone to feed all the children being born. Today those children survive only to lament their lives of poverty. It's an unavoidable fact of life that only work can create the wealth to fulfill your desires. The more you want to attain, and the greater the transition you need to make, the harder the work. Such work is life, and to expect others to live for you is just unfair. When people can accept that, poverty will be history

[love83forever]

when certain people are trapped in a social class why do you expect them to stay there. Black and latin people are tired of cleaning your dishes and floors... Why should they be stuck there, why not offer them the teaching job instead.

[natritious1]

I have to agree with you. I used to be a lazy communist.

[MrKurtfinn]

People don't want an opportuntiy they want a quick fix!!!

[yammyspeed13]

I'm black and I still agree with it. Just because it's a white person telling you this don't make him wrong, it just makes you a racist.

[TheLegalImmigrant05]

Yeah they should be free to do that, BUT I should not have to pay for their relaxation.

Other than that, I'm all for them relaxing.

[badmuffy]

Completely irrational hate mongering..

[wireashly]

beautiful coudnt said it better myself

[bogart114]

This is White Power, racist propaganda

[Schmeller]

Yeaaaa, Cropperb its so easy to look at the problems now. what about historical factors which helped create the mess? MMM short-sidedness indeed