Quote from @Maria Fortner:
@Bruce Woodruff Blaming and truth is two different things. Again WHY are people in poverty? Is it because they don’t care about themselves or is it because they have been trained by a system that made them depend on the system, stole their freedom and lied to them for years. Sure they should care about a community they don’t own and have no equity in. The people investing in the neighborhoods have the resources.
Maria, why does money exist? Yes, a means to exchange goods and services, I get that BUT why does the very item of a currency, OF money itself exist? This is VERY important because your entire foundation of belief is wrong.
Money exists because humans require BRIBERY to act.
That is the truth and fact of it. Humans are NOT altruistic.
We produce enough food in the world to feed every human 3 times over, so why do some starve? We have the capacity to build a shelter for every human on earth in the next 12 months, but we don't. Unknown people kill other unknown people to help advance the victory of some other unknown persons wants and wills and it's ok because we call it war.
Humans are NOT altruistic. We are petty, lazy, selfish, self-serving, manipulative, destructive little hairless ape's who require EXPANSIVE systems of control to FORCE us to act civil, to participate in act's of social construct.
Your premise Maria, is flawed, because the foundation is flawed, by a notion that all people want to be good, do good, give freely. Fact and reality is the total opposite and it's been proven time and time again. WELFARE is the US is a prime example. As more and more is given more and more persons DISENGAGED vs engaged. Persons take the hand-out and DO LESS. That is the facts and reality.
And color has ZERO to do with it, but CULTURE has EVERYTHING to do with it. My culture was of such that the humiliation is too great a pain to endure to take such. I had many asian immigrant friends growing up who experienced very similar cultures. We did not have the option to sit on our duff and just enjoy existing, we would suffer berating daily for such. It was not the government nor any politics who drove us, it was our culture, our expectations of self, what our culture would and would not accept.
Why does poverty exist? Because a person has accepted poverty as an acceptable condition of existing FULL-STOP.
Poverty is a CHOICE for 99.8% of persons. And that Maria IS FREEDOM!
Freedom is by it's very definition the opportunity to have however much good OR BAD a person will strive for. A system that removes a persons opportunity of poor choices is NOT FREEDOM.
If you want freedom, there will be sinners, it will not be an existence of only saints, because persons are free to choose either.
Fact is today most in poverty live BETTER than any member of Royalty lived 300yrs ago. A "poverty" persons lives BETTER than a King or Queen had lived, think on that for a moment.
The problem is peoples CULTURE, there CHOICES, there accountability of self, family, community.
We could house every human on earth, feed every human on earth, eliminate half the diseases on earth but, we won't, because PEOPLE choose to live by the metric of "me and you", and not "WE". It is why they define separators of persons at every chance; color, locality, education, etc etc..
It is not society's fault, responsibility or accountability for how one engages or does not engage in their own life. Society is not a thing of itself, it's a MIRROR. Society is a REFLECTION of the peoples choices, a mirror does not make one move in any 1 way or the other, does it.
Poverty will not end until people DECIDE to hold themselves to a higher standard, when they choose a culture, a self-accountability that is different. Opportunity has been given on a level and degree beyond any in human history and yet still, persons CHOOSE to not walk the "better" path.
Your argument is with human nature.
