Quote Originally Posted by bean
Ong might have been relatively poor in a financial sense, but not living in poverty by his own admission.
Some people with the same circumstances as me might say they have been living in poverty. The difference between me and them is that I own my life failures, I don't blame anyone else, I'm not a victim. A lot of poor people think they are victims. They're not. Poop will disagree strongly because he blames society. In the UK, in nearly all cases, I blame the individual. Being poor should only be temporary, unless you're satisfied with the life of being poor.

I do find it funny that me, the guy who only just got a job after a decade of unemployment, is less sympathetic to poor people than the guy who has a nice career and whose tax helps to support poor people. I never moaned about being poor because I always knew what the solution was... to get a fucking job.