What The Rich REALLY Think Of The Poor - AskViewers

warning this content may be upsetting or disturbing to some audiences we can only help people who do want to fix themselves rich people how do you really feel about poor people i come from a family that isn't rich in the way that millionaires with 10 cars and a mansion are but my family has always been well off and i've never had to worry about money i know that my parents will pay for my university my wedding some of my first home etc and i'm very grateful for that my honest answer to this question is that i feel bad for people in a bad situation but a lot of the time it's their own fault i'm not talking about the people who genuinely didn't have a chance no matter how hard they worked or the people who live in poor countries where they have a hard time finding ways to make money i'm talking about the people who spend twenty dollars every day on cigarettes even though they're in debt i'm talking about the people who say they're broke but eat at restaurants every other meal and are willing to spend 100 plus dollars on alcohol and snacks on a random tuesday and the ones who have the newest iphone airpods shoes etc while they can't afford to pay off their student loans although i'm extremely lucky that i was born into a family that had a good amount of money i know that my parents worked hard to get to this point my father had to work his butt off to get the well-paying job he has now my family may be rich but we only go out to eat one to three times a week only buy alcohol on special occasions buy bulk or value packs and items that are on sale all to save money because if we weren't smart with our money like this all of the time my siblings and i wouldn't be able to go to university and our parents wouldn't be able to retire early i wouldn't consider myself rich but some people would most would just say i'm well off i live in a pretty well-developed area of upstate new york i have a few friends who are poor it honestly doesn't change my opinion of them as it shouldn't you usually don't know how someone got into a situation so i think it's good to be open-minded children of people who are poor are usually very hard-working i've noticed and i'm not surprised they have to be i am very lucky that i was born into the situation i am in when i was born my parents were older than most people's parents in their 40s neither of them were born rich but they both worked their butts off their entire lives to get to where they are and i'm so lucky to have two parents who care about me like they do i know a lot of other people aren't as lucky my father has two parents who were good to him and his eight siblings of which he was third youngest my mother had a good mother and stepfather what i'm saying is that with hard work and a bit of luck you really can get out of any situation but that doesn't mean poor people are lazy most of them aren't there are other factors maybe their family was bad maybe they made one bad decision and maybe they just got unlucky i don't think it's good to judge people based on something like wealth as a poor man who worked his way into richness i feel like not every poor person who is working towards getting out of poverty will make it and that's good okay so before i sound like an a-hole let me explain why the reason why i think it's good for there to be poor people is because if everyone was rich then really no one is rich because the definition of rich is having wealth or great possessions abundantly supplied with resources means or funds wealthy a rich man a rich nation in other words being richer than most people but if we were all rich everyone will have the same money so therefore everyone is actually poor think about it it's kind of like survival of the fittest i guess there has to be people who do the hunting and those who get hunted i feel bad for saying all this especially when i've been poor myself and know how it feels but it's true this is why personally i would have loved to live in the ages where people still had to hunt for their own food with their own families or tribes yeah it was kind of barbaric back then but there wasn't a currency turning people against each other i don't know those are just my thoughts i just hope everyone out there is happy or can find happiness one day one way or another maybe not by being rich but finding that one soul mate you never thought you would have i don't know i just wish everyone happiness based on what i experienced a lot of poor people are in a two categories they're either poor because of their spending habits or they're poor because of their laziness and cowardice the first type are the people that don't think things through about their spending habits and big financial related decisions like marriage people are easy to blame the government or the pandemic when they haven't even quit their smoking and drinking habits that would amount a small fortune for most of them some of them resort to robbing a convenience store while justifying it's for their wife and kids well guess what ruining other people's life for the ones you favor doesn't erase your wrongdoings how about maybe save up an emergency account in case scenarios like this year happen or maybe don't have kids when you don't have a stable income in the first place it's the dumb things like this that irritates me when tradition and feelings ruled over people's biggest decision and not taking the accountability for it the second type are the ones that don't want to go outside their comfort zone to develop the skill that they're passionate or at least good at and monetize their skill by searching for a demand for it simply because they scared of failing and couldn't handle the process these type of people who goes with the flow of their peers around them that don't have the slightest direction of life as them and expecting things to just fall on their laps they don't realize that real life results like money comes from persistence and being away from pleasures that don't make the money you can't really rely on jobs either since positions can be taken from you at any moment the demand is ridiculously high or even ambiguous and the payer almost doesn't keep up with the inflation so you want to get a job where you have a good free time that you love while get a good pay get off video games and alcohol and start develop the skill necessary for a freelance job that you don't hate you can basically learn anything on youtube swallow up your ego save as much money as possible you're gonna need that because self-employed jobs are not gonna make much for the first three months i can speak from experience because i'm a 21 year old who haven't even graduated college and yet i was able to afford bills and food for my two siblings and my mother every month as freelance private trainer in which i'm good and i love it even during this trying times the society are so morally self-righteous that they think the best way to help poor people is to give them resources mainly because of religion sorry to break it to you but the only way to help those type of people is teach them to sustain themselves at best if you gave your money to an alcoholic hobo that money will go straight for another round in the street but if you teach him how to lawn chances are he will make a living from doing lawn that's how the economy works people give other people things so they could get something in return no such thing as free in this world it's how we sustain ourselves for thousands of years we can only be responsible for our own decision and we can only help people who do want to fix themselves yet people would rather applaud a drunken hobo with a sad story than to understand how rich people protect their income i believe that everybody actually deserves his faith to a certain extent i became rich because i used my brain and worked really hard most of the poor people not only are stupid but also lazy if you don't make any sacrifices then you shouldn't be complaining about your financial situation if you make bad decisions again you shouldn't be complaining so to answer the question i feel disgusted but if you are poor because you have a genuine issue that stops you from evolving well in this case i feel sorry and pity for you not rich personally but i come from a wealthy family the way they see poor and underclass people is the way a stubborn parent would see their kid always frowning down upon them how they see poor people is basically the look of you don't do anything for the country why should we help you i understand that some poor people aren't there because of stupidity some of them are actually veterans that had nowhere to go some were falsely accused list goes on i understand some of these poor people in poor housing are in debt and need money to stay in a stable area to at least pull themselves out and their families so am i rich in some cases yes but i know what poor people go through for some it's not by choice for others they make bad decisions i feel really bad for those that actually try the rest that just don't want work and just everything handed to them those are the people i don't agree with no one deserves anything however we all earned something my childhood was spent in a middle-class family in the united states dad worked construction and mom worked a desk job we got by but we were by no means well off i was lucky enough to come into a reasonably large sum of money in my 20s which i reinvested into the wealth i have now from my experience in general most rich people see poor people as overwhelmingly lazy and frankly a little stupid it takes months sometimes years of grinding to become wealthy and frankly most are unwilling to work that hard i've also found many rich people think most poor people are just outright dumb reason being it doesn't take a rocket scientist to do a personal cash flow chart and keep it positive take a second and think about your future so many people fall into bankruptcy because they're too brain-dead to realize they've been hemorrhaging money each month take control of your spending buy things with equity and save the designer flashy stuff for when you can actually afford it it's not hard to be rich just takes some applied effort and some financial common sense i feel that some poor people are not willing to put in the effort to try and not be poor anymore most lack the conviction and dedication to even attempt to get rich it's sad really because some poor people don't realize that it's easier to get rich than they think it's easy to get rich but the main problem that many of them encounter is staying rich because that's the hard part i find that my poorer friends make bad financial decisions like nice cars expensive clothes eating out most nights expensive phones all of which they can afford my point is poor people just need more opportunities and need to be taught financial responsibility i'm younger but i come from a wealthy slash influential family most of the time i just feel bad for poorer or impoverished people i try to help but my parents usually don't act like it's a problem and it really irks me some of my very best friends are extremely impoverished and in a terrible place yet i see all this wealth wasted on decor and clothes homes useless things laying around that money could have been used to feed someone at least i just see them as people trying to get by but just stuck in this terrible cycle i hope to share my viewpoints with a few others and i try to donate as much as i can but it's tough i've seen how hard a tool it takes on people and how it affects their mental health and well-being i'm not filthy rich but i don't consider myself middle-class either my family is the kind of rich where all two of my siblings and i study in one of the most expensive schools in the country with no scholarships i also own a part of an island at 18 sponsored by my father but my siblings and i didn't ask for any of these nor do we go spending money like crazy so yeah that kind of rich hopefully that qualifies me to answer this question i think poor people have low standards of what success is a lot of not-so-well-off people always think that getting married and having children is the peak of life at least that's how it is in my country their goals are so simple and narrow so simple that i'm kind of jealous of them but at the same time i'm glad i was born in a well-off family confusing i know but allow me to explain coming from a perspective of a college student forced to take a course that i loathe that will enable me to inherit the family business oftentimes i find myself wishing that our family business didn't exist the pressure and expectation to run the family business makes me wish we were middle class instead but then again i probably don't fully realize how fortunate i am compared to the less fortunate population given the chance i would most definitely want to live middle class with a job i'm passionate about with average pay but to live slump poor no thanks i'd rather cry and suffer with a full stomach than an empty one thanks for listening to radio tts and special thanks for submitting your answers hit the subscribe button and activate the notification bell for more community videos click the right box for the related playlist let us know in the comments what you think about these stories

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Length: 12min 34sec (754 seconds)

Published: Thu Nov 19 2020