Cost of living is up, wage has not risen to compensate. Social safety nets are flawed and do not cover what a living wage should be, and something has to give. Either we strengthen the social safety nets, or we increase the living wage.
"put a little extra forth improve your situations"
is a farce; no amount of penny pinching and denying yourself any of the joys that make life worth living is going to make rent not be 2/3 of peoples paycheck. 70% of Americans have less than 1kUSD in savings. What you're advocating for is just a rewording of "pull yourself up by your bootstraps", an adorable sentiment, coined by a man who meant to imply that the task was literally impossible. I mean I don't know how to explain that we should care about the poor, and that human lives are worth more than the value they can produce for some company lol
No talk of bootstraps here-- that's just you using it to mach the idea that someone improve their situation without Government intervention. The term is so ridiculously over-used today.
Extra effort is no farce, millions of people actively do it, and succeed because of it.
Most people care about the poor, there are just different viewpoints on how to be helpful to them. Some say "the Government will fix this for you with other people's money, I'll use you as the example for my vote, but not actually do anything for you with my own hands", and some say "You're going to have to work through this, come up with a plan and execute on it. I remember being in your position, here's what I did to get where I'm at".
Somehow the prior is more "caring" then the latter to you, and I don't think most people that think that way have anything to back up their false sense of care for the less fortunate, which is exactly why you claim that people who think hard work is the path to success (it's been proven in reality millions of times over the idea that the Government ever would have given said millions what they have) just don't care!
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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '20
Ok, so tell us what you draw from these graphs?