We often hear statements from the rich and the so-called middle class about what keeps poor people poor and why. They come up with all sorts of causes and possible solutions but no one ever addresses the real cause of what makes one poor and stay poor.
The number ONE mistake a person can make is to be born into a poor family. That's it.
Of course, we do not choose the families we are born into, but since the so-called experts and the rich can dictate mistakes that make a person poor, therefore; a child born in poverty is a mistake both the parents and the child did if we go with the rationale they use.
Many either ignorantly do see that poverty is a systemic issue, or they deliberately don't want to address it and then create all forms of causes and mistakes that poor people make to blind them from the real fundamental cause.
The primary and fundamental cause of poverty is the system that dominates a society.
A poor person can be jailed for years for culpable homicide, and a rich person will be acquitted because they have the money to afford the best lawyers and even bribe their way out with the justice 'system'.
A poor person can get a loan from the bank and be stagnant in debt, with summons and being blacklisted. A rich person can get a loan from the bank, and be in debt but will not be blacklisted if they fail to pay back because they have "collateral". They'll continue living off debt and credit cards for their whole lives because they possess what the economic 'system' requires.
Then they tell you that the number one mistake a poor person makes is getting into debt while the rich preach "use debt to make money" to each other.
Both these individuals in this scenario use debt (for whatever reason) but a poor person is pushed to do so, gets given loans and credit with high interest rates and then they get persecuted for doing such. While a rich man is praised and advised to keep on doing so as they get little to no interest rates on their loans and credit.
These people are the same. The mistake of the other one is being born poor.
Poverty is systemic, no matter which way you look at it. Poor people are being kept poor deliberately for the advancement of a greedy few.
Then that few come and tell you all sorts of reasons as to what keeps you poor to keep you poor without acknowledging the fact that the main reason is because of how the overall society's system is set up.
Yes, I can come from poverty and make it. I could be living in the streets as a child and working hard until I make it and go out of poverty. But what many fail to recognise is the role of LUCK in escaping poverty.
Someone could've been working harder than you and remained in poverty. That is the reality.
But you somehow got lucky and therefore were able to get yourself out of the poverty hole. But how many are lucky?
For example, we both can apply for a bursary with the same scores and marks but you get the bursary. You go study further, while I remain in poverty. Just because you are now part of the rich and I'm still in poverty does not make me less of a hard worker. You were purely lucky. Not disregarding your hard work and tenacity, luck plays a massive role in such instances.
And this is what the clever blacks who have managed to get themselves out of poverty fail to acknowledge. That luck is a real thing.
Myself not having luck, is where the system wants me. The structures of it will make every means to keep me there and use you to come and tell me I'm lazy. You managed to make it out, how can I fail to make it out too? These are the questions the clever former poor fellows ask.
Children born in rich or well-off families can commit the same mistakes as those from poor families, but the society, including the law and justice will be lenient on them and harsh to the poor.
The number one mistake the poor child made was to be born into a poor family.
But not all is lost. The only way to overcome this is to keep on working as hard so we can increase our chances of getting lucky.
Many stop trying and give in and that is where most poor people find themselves. Not because they are lazy or not smart enough, they are just tired. The trick is to never get tired no matter how painful the climb out the hole gets.
Giving in and stopping trying to find means of getting out of this dark hole is a snap trap one ought not put their feet into.
Daily. The harder you work, the more you increase your chances of luck and opportunity, and that luck will propel you to rise above and crawl your way out of the hole just like it did to the former poor fellows who are now classified middle-class (whatever that means).
Sitting around in sorrow doing nothing is what this imperialist capitalist system needs you to do for it to succeed and for you to stay in the hole.
In the end, the rich and the so-called middle class are no different from the poor. They make the same mistakes and commit the same sins, but the poor will always get more judged and persecuted because they don't have the means, aka money and resources to have their sins cleansed and therefore escape the system.
So, the number one mistake poor people make is to be born poor. All the other reasons that may be there are secondary to this.
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