I have been poor my whole life and I never felt like I wanted someone to take something from somebody else and give it to me. I don't get jealous of rich people, I learn from them. This is a side note but I like Dave Chappelle's quote from his last special, This is paraphrased but off the top of my head "(to his father) ' I hate being poor!' Son poor is a state of mind, You're broke!'.
You have been poor your whole life because you never had equal opportunity to flourish in first place with the already rich people. And they decide how much opportunity you will get. They decide the policies of business. They decide how much tax has to be cut from certain firms and how much wages have to be paid to certain people. They influence your president and whole senate. They pay the election campaigning of favourable political party so that laws be made that favour their monopoly. Why? Because they run the country through their capital. Your vote has always been insignificant. Who are "they"? They are the corporate elites.
Perhaps you're poor because you couldn't afford higher education. Perhaps they limited you by not giving you a free education so that you can reach your maximum potential. Most students have educational debt that take decades to settle.
How else they make you poor? They take advantage of your poor health and seek profit out of it. Healthcare is a very good business for them.
They exploit your labor and give you the least wage and keep all the profit earned through your labor. Its a theft. Since 20th century they feared revolutions throughout the globe so they were forced to change their system and introduced universal basic healthcare and public education institutions. Well, not whole world has these yet.
You still think anyone is "jealous" of the rich? That's a bit funny. Forbes says that only 8% of billionaires are self made. Rest are inherently billionaires. And probability of you or me to be a billionaire is mere 0.002%. Capital is made from capital. Rich people just have to invest money and it creates even more money. The working class does all the work and working class is the one which is oppressed.
This post will trigger many people
Edited by
Blaze
on Tue 02/18/20 07:16 AM