/lit/ - Literature

Poor people are not valuable, but that's more of a mindset instilled by consumerism than anything else. For poor people living and working on yourself and your own things are less important than showing off. America's poor wear ill fitting clothes in dirty apartments but, because we value showing off, buy the latest air pods, 10 pairs of shoes, and finance a new car that ends up filled with trash. These people will always be poor and begging for money; you cannot change them. The imperative is to endlessly consume.

And when they do that, they live paycheck to paycheck and cannot afford to negotiate or try anything out of fear of losing. Because of that they are cucked to the masters that pay their wage.

But, if you place a financially smart person in a similar situation, they quickly stop living paycheck to paycheck, have a clean apartment, then wear clothes that fit and say "I'm not a poor person". They find themselves in a position where they have choice and appear put together enough so that others will listen. They can go and ask for things, go and try simply because they can deal with the alternative to success. The ability to do so doesn't require a million bucks, it just requires personal responsibility and a resistance to consumerism.