Assuming your special snowflake anecdote is actually true, that still doesn't change the fact that your country (I'm assuming you're American) should at least have done its best to provide you with enough food to prevent you from actually starving to death. Even if you turned out like the vast majority of Americans born to the lowest income group (hint: they generally stay there) instead of being a wonderful rags to riches success story. Maybe you thrived in spite of your disadvantageous background, but chances are you and the country would have been better off if your family hadn't been in that situation.
Of course the entire country would benefit from eliminating poverty. Hell, the world would benefit from that.
However the only reason the poor stay poor, is a lack of effort and forethought.
Is that why poor people stay poor?
gotta admit i was always real curious. But it turns out the root cause is that they just want to be poor.
glad someone can simplify it, for everyone. Turns out if you ask poor people if they want to be rich, they say no. Because apparently poor people love starvation.
Nice strawman.
nice word you just learned but incorrectly used. Keep it up i heard you pulled yourself up by the bootstraps, though never quite learned what strawman means.
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