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Originally posted by TikiMiss
Working hard is not the same as working smart. For example, I would bet you that most people think that having a large savings account and saving as much as possible is the key to getting rich, but it's actually not. Any time you put money into a savings account, you are already condemning that money to useless depreciation as inflation continues and the value of the dollar drops.
There's tons of little tricks, and really a whole different mindset that separates rich people from the middle class and the poor. It boils down to risks. Rich people take bigger risks that, when they work, pay off handsomely. Poor and middle class people usually wouldn't dare because the mentality is different. The ones who do, have a much better shot of joining the elite.
Also those "rich" people that the poor like to rail against are the same people who make it possible that almost anyone can own a home, have a cell phone, access the internet, have relatively inexpensive food at the markets, etc.
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You're using the typical argument of someone who has enough money to be ignorant about what poverty really is. You're American, right? You must be.
Do you think that people living in utmost poverty are in place to use 'little tricks'? Do you think that they have spare money to use wisely and, boom, rise into the middle class? Do you think they're concerned about their savings account? Do they even have one?
Then again, you just proved my point. Some people think the source of poverty is people not doing enough. I think it's the opposite, it's rich minority people keeping the leash tight and doing what they can to maintain their huge percentage of the total wealth.
Luckily, in Brazil, we have many Income Distribution programs and that helped millions of people without spending almost anything. A few dollars can change people's lives - and yet rich people think it'll be the end of the world. I'm tired of seeing these conservative people demonstrate how disgusted they are about less favored people becoming more and more active in our society and economy.
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Originally posted by hairofglory
Uhm because I'm from a country that has tried communism and failed.
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Well, then you don't know what would have happened had it succeeded.