When you don’t have enough money, you have no choice but to be smarter and more resourceful. You have to learn, you have to look for other alternatives, be aware of where you are going, where you step when walking and, if you slip, to get up and take note of your mistakes. You can’t afford to be stupid or look stupid, otherwise your life, which is already hard, will get worse.
But when you are rich? It doesn’t fucking matter at all. You can make the biggest fuck up that a human being can do in his whole life; be deceived and swindled for amounts equivalent to a person’s 5-year salary, over and over again; you can believe all the fakenews and pseudosciences that humanity has created; you can screw up as many times as you want… You will still be rich, you will still be opulent, you will still be able to make more mistakes.
While all of us are one accident or a serious illness away from ending up in economic ruin, the rich don’t stop being rich even by dying.
Obvious? Yes, but it doesn’t hurt to remember.
I know PLENTY of poor people who are stupid as fuck. Money may play a role, but it is not a major one. Try visiting rural Kentucky sometime.
Ya but their stupidity transforms into those pesky consequences
As I said to the other guy:
What you fail to realize is that if you are stupid or poor enough, consequences have no meaning or effect. There’s not a lot to be done to someone who lives in a 60-year-old single-wide trailer with no electricity, drinking well water drawn 30 feet from an oozing pile of trash, who can’t spell their own name.
Fair enough 😂!
Or as they say; you can’t beat stupid!
I’m squinting my eyes at this possible jab
I have already said it in other answers, I repeat it again:
I’m referring to the PRIVILEGE that the rich have of being able to be stupid without major or even outright any consequences.
Obviously, by pure statistics, there will be MILLIONS of stupid poor people.
I read those responses; what you fail to realize is that if you are stupid or poor enough, consequences have no meaning or effect. There’s not a lot to be done to someone who lives in a 60-year-old single-wide trailer with no electricity, drinking well water drawn 30 feet from an oozing pile of trash, who can’t spell their own name.
I strongly disagree, because one of the consequences of being stupid while being poor is precisely to remain poor or outright misery . And with what you say, well, it can always get worse: losing the trailer in a disaster, catching a disease from poorly treated water, being deceived with promises of wealth and ending up in prison or dead…
Agree to disagree, I suppose.
Your basic assertion is that a poor person would have to change their ways due to circumstances brought-on by their stupidity, and this is false.
The stupid lack the awareness to see the issue as having come from themselves, and therefore will not change; when you have no money, you pay for everything with bits of your life.
So a person who is both stupid and poor will see sickness, jail time, any sort of negative as merely another price tag to pay for what others have done to them. They’ll pay the price, become a little more bitter, and continue as they were - most-likely with a heightened determination and sense of pride.
That’s not a privilege, that’s a punishment, whether they recognise it or not