Yeah but what kind of a life is that for them? It's not really privileged. Just easy and spoiled. The children don't get to eat breakfast at home with their family and enjoy a family meal. They're not home being loved and enjoying family time after school. It's not nice living in public housing, they don't have a nice house or live in the suburbs. It seems privileged but it's really disadvantaged so they're not getting the better end of the deal. Definitely not ideal.
I think the point here is that, ultimately, many poor people often take no steps to lift themselves up from poverty, and instead milk the existing support systems for all they have. They complain about the public housing, but then spend half of their disposable income on consumer goods, etc.
This is the entire point, kinda surprised even one person doesn’t get it haha. Grew up on the south side of STL and remember being a small kid looking around and already thinking/saying What the fuck are all these people doing with their lives??
10, 18, 45 year old people with zero drive, zero motivation to do ANYTHING but they will complain all fucking day about how they’re being held down by evil white people. Entire neighborhoods and cities of them. They look at nice neighborhoods and will swear those people didn’t have to do any work to get what they have, they will swear the only reason they’re not there is because they’re black. These people refused to complete a single homework assignment in 5th grade and are pissed they’re still living on the same block at 40.
Oh yes I know. : ). I just mean it may seem like they're kind of getting a better deal than some but honestly they're not because they're are trading off better things they could have if they didn't do that stuff.
Yeah but what kind of a life is that for them? It's not really privileged. Just easy and spoiled. The children don't get to eat breakfast at home with their family and enjoy a family meal. They're not home being loved and enjoying family time after school. It's not nice living in public housing, they don't have a nice house or live in the suburbs. It seems privileged but it's really disadvantaged so they're not getting the better end of the deal. Definitely not ideal.
I think the point here is that, ultimately, many poor people often take no steps to lift themselves up from poverty, and instead milk the existing support systems for all they have. They complain about the public housing, but then spend half of their disposable income on consumer goods, etc.
This is the entire point, kinda surprised even one person doesn’t get it haha. Grew up on the south side of STL and remember being a small kid looking around and already thinking/saying What the fuck are all these people doing with their lives??
10, 18, 45 year old people with zero drive, zero motivation to do ANYTHING but they will complain all fucking day about how they’re being held down by evil white people. Entire neighborhoods and cities of them. They look at nice neighborhoods and will swear those people didn’t have to do any work to get what they have, they will swear the only reason they’re not there is because they’re black. These people refused to complete a single homework assignment in 5th grade and are pissed they’re still living on the same block at 40.
I got the fuck out and NEVER went back.
Oh yes I know. : ). I just mean it may seem like they're kind of getting a better deal than some but honestly they're not because they're are trading off better things they could have if they didn't do that stuff.