No i was being polite, i'll make it more plain, you are wrong, or at least you're painting things with to narrow a brush.
Actually your painting with a narrow brush. Your assuming that everyone has the drive, motivation and ability to pull out of poverty.
It's often nothing to do with patience. Some kids look at their situation, hate it and want to get out, the choice then comes down to individual character. Are you a hard worker, or like the easy route?
You just reiterated my point, its all down to the individual character. Some have it, most don't.
Yes they give in and they are therefore pathetic. This society gives people every opportunity and you just have to grab it. Anyone, from the most deprived area can work their arse off and get out of it and some people do that. They prove it can be done and so the others have no excuse. This doesn't mean everyone can be a brain surgeon, but there are jobs to meet every skill set.
Easy there. Just because someone can't pull out of the rut doesn't mean they are pathetic.
And you're right, some people do work themselves out of the rut, but the system we live in is designed to keep people in poverty. You can only have an upper and middle class if there are poor people as well.
There is only so much wealth in the world and if everyone in poverty managed to pull themselves out the economy would crumble. Its like a pizza, if you want more slices of pizza each slice has to be smaller. So for everyone that pulls themselves out of poverty (gets their slice of pizza) it makes it harder for others to do the same, cause now the size of the available slices is smaller. Its called inflation.
And like I said before, there is a job for every skill set but there still isn't a job for everyone.
I know you can argue that we can get the economy together and make poverty almost non existent, thats just gonna make things worse somewhere else in the world. Again, the pizza slices get smaller. If we start taking bigger pieces that leaves less pizza for everyone else.
What else are we supposed to do? Every opportunity is afforded, job centres even offer training and the government offers funding for adult education! What else would you suggest? We can only excuse behavior to a certain degree.
Its not about excusing behavior, its about accepting the reality of the situation.
I don't really have anything to suggest as I'm no politician or social analyst. All I can say is that you're trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. I don't know where the round peg is or how to get out the square peg that you've been trying to hammer into this round whole. All I can do is say that peg doesn't fit that hole.
