We like to think hard work and correct attitudes towards education, savings and investment results in being well off. And to a certain extent it does.
But, many people who are well off, in fact likely some of the most well off, have an entirely different attitude that doesn't have anything to do with the above traits of the middle class. And that is the burning desire to fuck other people over and to take unfair advantage of others at every opportunity regardless of the effects it may have on the victims.
Poverty sometimes isn't all about short term thinking and bad choices. Sometimes it's just being fucked over at different scales again and again and not being able to defend oneself against it. Education and going to work everyday doesn't necessarily help in this regard.
But, many people who are well off, in fact likely some of the most well off, have an entirely different attitude that doesn't have anything to do with the above traits of the middle class. And that is the burning desire to fuck other people over and to take unfair advantage of others at every opportunity regardless of the effects it may have on the victims.
Poverty sometimes isn't all about short term thinking and bad choices. Sometimes it's just being fucked over at different scales again and again and not being able to defend oneself against it. Education and going to work everyday doesn't necessarily help in this regard.