Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Thu Oct 07, 2021 5:02 pm
My dear fellow, you have no idea of how many impediments there are between the honest poor and any kind of sustainable income. One is literacy and numeracy, which they neither have nor can afford. Another is that many of them live on less than $1 USD per day, and are barely surviving. Another is business skills, which are not innate. Another is the total indifference of the major banks. Another is their inability to show ownership, even if they have a bicycle or a scrap of land. Many have no collateral, no identity, no education, no opportunity, no liquidity, no assets, no skills, poor health, bad sanitation, no solid roof above and no clean floor beneath, and often not even good drinking water...but all of these, with a little help and an opportunity, can become the kind of things you imagine. But not without help.
You really must get out of the house once in awhile. It would do you a world of good to visit somewhere that does not have instant access to these things.
You would realize how funny that last statement you made actually is...though nobody who's suffering it is laughing along. It's the kind of thing that only a spoiled Westerner could ever imagine, let alone write.
Life is tough.
Are you talking about retarded people? Unless there is some kind of mental defect, anyone who really wants to can learn to read, write, and do simple arithmetic. It doesn't cost money to read and write--just hard work.
You need to read a little about US history, and those many slaves and ex-slaves or early settlers of the West who learned those things, many entirely on their own, though most easily found others who would gladly teach them their, "letters," and, "numbers." If you read some of the less romanticized histories you'll discover there were many
who had nothing at all, not even one change of clothing, no money, no tools, only the willingness to do whatever it took to make something of themselves. No one had to provide them sanitation, they learned how to clean up themselves. No one had to provide them, "a roof over their head," they learned how to build their own shelter. No one else had to feed them, they learned how to hunt, grow, and prepare their own food.
Do you have any idea how many billions of dollars have been sent to Africa and the Middle East to provide those poor indigent deprived people with education, food, clothing, tools, machinery, financing, and training? It doesn't work, because they won't work, and most of them won't work because they are ignorant and superstitious believing their gods, or nature, or their government or stupid suckers who actually earn their money will send it to them to take of them.
There is not a single thing you call an, "impediment," you claim prevents individuals from making something of themselves that others have not only endured, but completely overcame, often achieving more the those who never knew such difficulties. Your sentimental desire to, "help," those who do not make a successful effort to help themselves is an insult to all those who have succeeded without your help, and would have refused it if offered.