No it doesn’t. It requires work ethic and community that rewards it. Those things can’t be built with money.
One reason these polices fail is because clueless white rich people think you can just give people money and boom problem over. Poverty is a inter-generational series of behaviors, it takes generations to get out of. The biggest factor is not money, it’s behaviour.
I grew up in a community with poverty. Some people made it out, most didn’t. Money had nothing to do with it. I had friends who had more money than me who ended up in prison, and friends with less than me who also got out. And many who got out and came back and ended up back where they were. The difference was their attitude towards life, if they were living for the moment, or living for tomorrow.
And frankly as someone how go it out, the people who got left behind are intense bitter, nasty, and greedy towards you when you do. And they start yelling at you how ‘if only they had what you had’… because they just refuse to take responsibility for themselves. The entire culture is a lot of bitterness, resentment, and trying to get rich quick and/or blowing money you do have on pointless luxuries. It is not a healthy culture that values education and financial responsibility, and often if you do take that path, as I did, your friends/family just HATE you for not being like them, for not wanting to blow your paycheck on booze and drugs every weekend like they do.
you don’t fix poverty by giving poor people money.
you fix it by providing them upward mobility.
UBI pilot programs give a lot of evidence to the contrary
No, they don’t.
Ok great. So give them upward mobility. That’s going to cost money.
No it doesn’t. It requires work ethic and community that rewards it. Those things can’t be built with money.
One reason these polices fail is because clueless white rich people think you can just give people money and boom problem over. Poverty is a inter-generational series of behaviors, it takes generations to get out of. The biggest factor is not money, it’s behaviour.
I grew up in a community with poverty. Some people made it out, most didn’t. Money had nothing to do with it. I had friends who had more money than me who ended up in prison, and friends with less than me who also got out. And many who got out and came back and ended up back where they were. The difference was their attitude towards life, if they were living for the moment, or living for tomorrow.
And frankly as someone how go it out, the people who got left behind are intense bitter, nasty, and greedy towards you when you do. And they start yelling at you how ‘if only they had what you had’… because they just refuse to take responsibility for themselves. The entire culture is a lot of bitterness, resentment, and trying to get rich quick and/or blowing money you do have on pointless luxuries. It is not a healthy culture that values education and financial responsibility, and often if you do take that path, as I did, your friends/family just HATE you for not being like them, for not wanting to blow your paycheck on booze and drugs every weekend like they do.