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RE: Engaging minds, cultivating dreams and learning everyday
there are a huge percentage of the population, at least in this country, who would never consider opportunities to improve their situation.
I wonder why this is so because I see the same thing here. Any idea?
Me-time is either doing nothing or anything that comes to mind. :)
hey there macoolette! wow your question is a huge one with no simple answers but generally speaking people become lazy and complacent when they get on government assistance which all of the poor people are on in this country and they develop an entitlement attitude expecting and demanding that they be taken care of and also a victim mentality where they think nothing is there responsibility.
We've worked with ex cons, people getting out of prison and they all have that same thinking.
as far as your last sentence..wow you could be a politician! lol. great non-answer!
There was this video that circulated around Facebook about a month or so ago. The video was talking about a "study" of poverty. It was saying that poor people behave differently but they are not poor because they behave so that way. It is the other way around that they behave differently because they are poor. The "study" concluded that poor people will forego their different behavior if they are alleviated from being poor. Thus, the "study" suggested the idea of universal basic income.
I really wish it works that way but it does not seem so. We have a government program that gives minimal monthly allowance to poor families. After few years of implementing that, I am hearing feedbacks exactly the same as you mentioned about people becoming complacent. I no longer know how to help people like that.
On the other end, I cannot deny the fact that we have so many people struggling to make their lives better in spite of rampant corruption in the government.
No, thank you about being a politician. And I mean that me-time. It's just how it is. Get up when I want to, have a cone of ice cream for an hour or longer in a convenient store, anything that goes to kill time.