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<blockquote data-quote="wilberforce15" data-source="post: 1199559" data-attributes="member: 5053"><p><span style="color: #000000"></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Dave Ramsey offers excellent personal advice, both on finances and all the personal things along with it like work ethic, general attitude, etc. I love him for that stuff.</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">But he is seriously confused in one respect, namely the fact that he seems to think those answers (determination, hard work, etc.) solve poverty anywhere they are applied, and that anyone who is poor has failed to live by them.</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">If every poor person everywhere suddenly did everything exactly as Dave Ramsey said, this world would be a lot better. But you'd still have hordes of people barely able to provide for themselves and their families, because our system simply does not pay the lower rungs what they are worth. Those lower rung jobs have to exist and have to be done, and people will fill those spots. </span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">For an individual, applying hard work and elbow grease might get you a promotion or a better job. But if everyone does the same thing, the number of promotions or jobs doesn't expand a whole lot. There is hope on an individual level, but the poor as a class don't have much of a shot.</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wilberforce15, post: 1199559, member: 5053"] [COLOR=#000000] Dave Ramsey offers excellent personal advice, both on finances and all the personal things along with it like work ethic, general attitude, etc. I love him for that stuff. But he is seriously confused in one respect, namely the fact that he seems to think those answers (determination, hard work, etc.) solve poverty anywhere they are applied, and that anyone who is poor has failed to live by them. If every poor person everywhere suddenly did everything exactly as Dave Ramsey said, this world would be a lot better. But you'd still have hordes of people barely able to provide for themselves and their families, because our system simply does not pay the lower rungs what they are worth. Those lower rung jobs have to exist and have to be done, and people will fill those spots. For an individual, applying hard work and elbow grease might get you a promotion or a better job. But if everyone does the same thing, the number of promotions or jobs doesn't expand a whole lot. There is hope on an individual level, but the poor as a class don't have much of a shot. [/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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