Topic: Why do people stay poor? - page 18. (Read 3528 times)

The fact is that poverty is when you spend all your earnings, whether it's a permanent job, or cryptocurrencies, on food and needs. And a difficult situation is created when there is no way to set aside at least a small amount in order to try to invest it later. What I suggest to do in such cases: find a side job.

Every extra money earned over and above what will be spent is very important. After all, they will be postponed, and when properly rotated, they will multiply.

Handing out freebies never does the job. In 99% of the cases, those who receive these handouts will not spend that amount carefully, because there is no respect for money that is gifted without any effort or hard work. In order to push people out of poverty, they need to be taught new skills and given proper jobs. This was the approach used by China during the late 90s and they managed to eradicate extreme poverty in less than two decades. Countries such as India still remains poor, because they still follow the populist method of handing out freebies.

Many people do their best so they can improve the quality of life or leave poverty, farmers work from dark mornings and go home when the days are very hot, but when harvesting many unexpected things occur such as plant pests, to state policies to import materials harvested by farmers so that harvest prices drop, this is an example that the best effort may not necessarily leave poverty.

Although poverty is a natural rule, people do not want to live with poverty. Because only poor people understand how hard the world is for them. Everyone is born in a poor family but they have a dream to come out of this poverty. You said the poor should never come out of this circle. If you look at the background of all the richest people in the world today, you will see how they rose from poverty to where they are today.  Hard work can change anything. 

Charity will not remove poverty It is true that a person who wants to come out of poverty should never accept charity from others. Because the target of the charity person is when people will donate to him and he will continue with that donation money. 

Everyone has to struggle to establish themselves from being poor, but for those who come from rich families, becoming rich is very easy.

The system is gamed almost everywhere around the globe. If you don't have anything on the side from your day to day job, do not wisely take risks or invest without being gamed by the markets and do not take any leaps of faith outside of the daily routine, your life is doomed to be the same. Unfortunately, the world is bred to follow this norm. To be productive people for the people above them, who are productive for the people above them, etc. That's just the way that life is until one begins to take risks, which will either lead to further doom or great success.

Even giving them money still there will stay being poor because it doesn't mean that their life will be changed just to give them money. Also just imagine we are all rich who will be going to do the construction? For sure most of us is just in our house not doing anything as we already rich. There are reasons behind it but still we need to strive if we want a comfortable life. Being poor is not easy as you cant eat want you want to eat

I also thought the same thing. That everything will come back to us or it all depends on how we learn in this life and have high motivation to change our life circumstances. But I also can't hide the fact that there are a lot of people out there who have worked hard, even they are good at making relationships and also have good skills that make it easy for them to make a lot of money. but sometimes they are unlucky and don't succeed in achieving their dreams. But one lesson we must hold is that we must not give up on our circumstances. we have to keep learning and keep working hard at the same time. keep trying without giving up. even the owner of a big company like Cocacola also had a rough start. they even almost went bankrupt because their product didn't sell well in the market but they didn't give up and currently their drink is one of the most famous in almost all countries. many stories of people becoming successful because they don't give up and keep trying when they don't succeed. another example is the story of the founder of KFC. and many more. because all rich people do not immediately achieve success. they also have a hard time at first but they keep learning from mistakes and never give up by trying and trying again until they succeed.

In principle, I agree with this. There are many examples of people who, if they had acted on their goals, had worked their way up out of poverty. But now the window of opportunity is rapidly shrinking, as large corporations do everything they can to keep small businesses from growing. Yes, they pay lip service to opportunity, but in reality they don't.

Opportunity is not that things that will be offered to you in advance and you will be able to grab it very easily. Opportunity has to be achieved through own skill and hard work. And I think the one big reason for that the people stay poor because they don't give that efford by their own skills and hard work for getting good opportunities to be successful. and I think  it is the reason for saying thay from  bill gates " if you born by poor thats not your mistake or sin, it will be sin if you die by poor." But sometimes it is also true that there were also some  society those does not allow them to advance.

Being poor I think is a decision because I know of several opportunities which creates chances for all even the ones that does not require educational qualifications but only experience life is something we must strive for even if it is not easy to get it must people refused or choose to be friend rich people because they think they are ahead of them forgetting that they also can create their own content but they neglected their self the offer to be self employed in think most people fear to associate with people with so much creativity
Getting the knowledge of online trading is also an
 important opportunity of getting rich which is common in our society today

There are much more posibilities out there to spend your hard earned $.
Kids for once. Creditlines, and so on.

not everyone is given the same opportunity that is mainly the reason why not everyone can become financially free or can invest and become rich over time. i don't think that mindset alone is the key to become financially independent, but same with opportunities present should actually meet at the right time. i have seen so many hard workers in my neighborhood who doesn't even party, gamble and is saving every last penny they could acquire, but in the end they are still living the life of a poor person, the reason why? coz they are limited with the opportunities they get by.

Lack of education and knowledge with the opportunities that open up to investor to learn things that may change their financial capabilities, I can agree that if you don't have the knowledge, then it will be difficult for you to start venturing with other venues to earn.


It's challenging since they don't have spare to invest, or even they've got some of the challenges in trusting the process is not carried by the kind of mindset that they've got.

Why do people stay poor, this is a simple question that i often asked my parents when i was a teenager, and the answer is fate.

In fact, poverty is a complex issue because it involves life, mindset, education, social environment and many others. in each country, has its own problems related to poverty that occurs. but what happened in my country, the problem is the human resources themselves. mindset, low mindset keeps someone who is poor poor. because, he has many limitations, let alone to develop the potential that exists within him. it could also, do not have a plan. because having a plan in life is so very important, at least someone who wants to get out of poverty must have a plan, the goal is none other than to always survive in all circumstances.

not infrequently, why do people remain poor because they are limited by not having capital. which in the end, they only work as casual laborers and do not have proper income. lastly, education.
Low education, causing the poor unable to compete in jobs, they do not have skills and abilities, so they can only work as coolies or laborers. well, at least this phenomenon occurs in my country. supposedly, to make society more advanced, the government must prioritize its own human resources by prioritizing education.

I am sure there are a lot of people who would disagree with you in terms of  poverty being necessary.
I do not think that way, I can argue that economical differences are expected in a capitalist system, but it is not necessary poverty to be widespread for the system to function. One thing is an important percentage of the population not being able to afford food and shelter and other completely different thing is the same percentage of the population not being able to afford a new video game console or a wide screen for their living room. 

One is not supposed to ignore those problems but address them, so the poor can work and contribute to society, instead begging.

Some people still believe on if wishes were horses and that "getting rich" is just a different journey for everyone and that "it's all in the mindset." There are various challenges you will face once you decide to pursue success, and many people have given up on dreams that would have made them wealthy simply because of those challenges. However, I learn so much from books by successful people that they never gave up even if it was difficult, and even if it was difficult, they persisted, even if it was as if it led them nowhere they kept going on till they achieved their dream.

I believe that getting rich doesn’t happen suddenly out of the blues, we have so many people out there that wants to become rich so quick bet they end up failing, yet they keep on pushing things and still hoping that things would get better someday. At the other hand, we have some people that are just putting little efforts into making money and here they are today enjoying their wealth. Nobody wants to die poor, I believe that everyone wants to have a taste of wealth as well, staying in poverty is never an option rather. Our determination and commitment towards striving hard to ensure that money is made should be the goal and first step into getting rich, is not by having large wealth bet having all your needs without lacking and borrowing is my own definition of riches.

Poor is a part of life, don't ever dream of eliminating poverty, if there is a country then distributes $100 million to all its citizens then in a month or less there will be new poverty, this is because poverty is a law of nature to be a counterbalance so that life can run.

Since some of the poor struggle to provide for themselves each day, I understand why they would want to become wealthy or invest their money. Poor people never believe in investing because they are afraid of losing their money, and they don't understand technology or any other type of investment, which is why they don't. These issues, among others, prevent the poor from investing their own money.
It will be very challenging to find a poor person who invests their money in other things because they are not content enough with what they have. People who invest will be capable of doing it, and I believe that no matter what happens in this life, not all of us will become wealthy.

Hard work with the same nature of job can't bring you to the state that may give you some decent edge over poverty, unlike with proper/higher education where you can explore and can take good opportunities to pick a job that may give you better compensation, though not applied with 3rd world country mostly as there's no way to choose if the availability of job are not competitive enough to earn decently.

I mean even you have good education but the economy can't provide good / high value types of jobs then there's nothing we can do.


We witness that most of the time with third world country they are stuck with how their parents/grandparents kind of life and the only options is follow the flow and continue living as it is, we might be able to change this if we will manage to exceed with any limitations that blocking our way, if we are really keen in changing our life and our family's future life then we should find the way.