Because a lot of Americans think they can become part of the smaller group if they work hard enough.
Yep. Some people genuinly believe they are ‘temporary embarrassed billionaires’
Sucker born every minute.
That’s why I openly pity my A-Type, true believer coworkers going above and beyond and sacrificing their own lives to enrich the already rich further.
They don’t like the way I shake my head and sigh at them when they gush about how productive they were. I’m just there to get my subsistence crumbs from the owner class while doing what I have to. They see running up the score for some greedy fucks poisoning society with needless consumerism as some noble mission 🤣
I never really liked this explanation. I live in a very conservative province and many of my friends are like this.
NONE of them suffer from this delusion.
What it is is that they believe that the government is intentionally impoverishing working class people (which is true) and that this is partially the fault of poor people, this myth that there’s a huge mass of people riding the system on their backs. They often see the rich as having worked incredibly hard for their money (they often don’t) and don’t understand the difference between their uncle who’s a millionaire that actually did work hard and billionaires that buy politicians and control our society to enrich themselves on the backs of the working class.
It’s both, not either/or.
You think 150 million people in this country are just too lazy to make ends meet?
Some of them yes others may not have the intellectual/mental capability or physical issues that prevent it as well. Most people who want and work to get out of poverty will get to the lower middle class which is a better life than 99% of humans have ever had.
That’s not what I asked, nor was it what the person I was responding to implied.
We don’t live paycheck-to-paycheck because we’re lazy. It’s the fucking economy.
It’s not the economy. The U.S. has one of the highesr production rates in the world, and one of the highest GDPs in the world.
The money is absolutely there in the economy to make ends meet for us all, the economy is more than healthy enough for it. But that wealth doesn’t go to us, it goes to the 1%.
It’s the distribution of wealth/ownership that’s the problem.
Maybe not entirely the economy, but food costs have gone way up in the past few years due to inflation and it is making a big strain on a lot of people. I agree that distribution of wealth is a huge problem, but you can’t disregard the economy as well. High production rates and GDP don’t translate into affordable groceries.
Propaganda and ignorance.
Becuase the rich have a PR machinery to their disposal and folks are gullible as ever !
Easy I see and interact with lazy people everyday who abuse the system and refuse to try to better themselves I have had to the best of my knowledge zero interaction with the richest people of the world in my life. People see what’s right in front of them as the issue even if it’s not.
That’s a pretty bleak view of the people around you. Are you a manager by any chance? Lol
I wouldn’t consider it bleak I consider myself lazy I think it’s part of being human to be like water and go the path of least resistance. I was a loser until my dad put a shotgun in my face and said I was joining the Marine Corp went to college after to smoke weed and party met my wife there and only by wanting to get laid did I start getting good grades and applying to internships to keep her impressed started out in consulting in the late 90s hated every minute of it but after having kids and wanting nothing but the best for them I went for promotions worked around the clock and made partner 11 years later. Most people I talk to are the same way we hate work but have some sort of golden handcuff that keeps them going. I’d much rather just do nothing and if circumstances were different I’d be doing nothing and be happy I’m happy now as well but the cost of this happiness is much higher.
So to you you’re lazy bc you didn’t want to do that stuff? I feel like most people would consider you and anyone else like you not lazy since you got up and did it all despite that feeling. I think everyone gets those feelings and what makes someone lazy is submitting to them and not getting what needs to be done done. Personally.
