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<blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 5720119" data-attributes="member: 24302">I&#039;m not impoverished.&nbsp; I&#039;m poor.&nbsp; And where you go wrong is thinking it&#039;s unfair you have to work to have nice things.&nbsp; If I have a roof over my head, food to eat, clothes to wear then I have all I need.&nbsp; Everything else is just things I want.&nbsp; I don&#039;t envy the rich having much nicer things than I do.&nbsp; I&#039;m not willing to go to those lengths to have those things and likely I&#039;m not capable of achieving those things anyways.&nbsp; I&#039;ve pointed this out before: read that John D. Rockefeller had a fortune of $750 million.&nbsp; $150 billion in today&#039;s dollars at the time I read that about 20 years ago.&nbsp; Yet he never talked on a cellphone, never watched tv, never flew in a modern airplane, never drove or rode in today&#039;s most luxurious vehicles, never saw the Internet.&nbsp; I&#039;ve done things the one time richest man in the world would have never even dreamed of.&nbsp; So being poor is relative.&nbsp; If you must have a 5000 sq ft home full of beautiful furniture and nice electronics and a three car garage fully loaded with vehicles, toys, and tools and are willing to work what is necessary to get those things more power to you.&nbsp; If you aren&#039;t then you&#039;ll have to settle for less.&nbsp; All those nice things represent jobs people have to produce and transport them.&nbsp; But trying to bring down the system that employs, feeds, clothes, and houses more people in prosperity than any other system in history because you don&#039;t want to work hard to have nice things is on you.&nbsp; You&#039;re the reason you don&#039;t have everything you want and envy those who do.&nbsp; Not the system.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="vantexan, post: 5720119, member: 24302"] I'm not impoverished. I'm poor. And where you go wrong is thinking it's unfair you have to work to have nice things. If I have a roof over my head, food to eat, clothes to wear then I have all I need. Everything else is just things I want. I don't envy the rich having much nicer things than I do. I'm not willing to go to those lengths to have those things and likely I'm not capable of achieving those things anyways. I've pointed this out before: read that John D. Rockefeller had a fortune of $750 million. $150 billion in today's dollars at the time I read that about 20 years ago. Yet he never talked on a cellphone, never watched tv, never flew in a modern airplane, never drove or rode in today's most luxurious vehicles, never saw the Internet. I've done things the one time richest man in the world would have never even dreamed of. So being poor is relative. If you must have a 5000 sq ft home full of beautiful furniture and nice electronics and a three car garage fully loaded with vehicles, toys, and tools and are willing to work what is necessary to get those things more power to you. If you aren't then you'll have to settle for less. All those nice things represent jobs people have to produce and transport them. But trying to bring down the system that employs, feeds, clothes, and houses more people in prosperity than any other system in history because you don't want to work hard to have nice things is on you. You're the reason you don't have everything you want and envy those who do. Not the system. [/QUOTE]

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