What is the real difference between rich and poor, psychologically? Better beginnings for rich, better schools; better food; better toys; better stuff all around. In a lot of ways, though, I feel sorry for them because they miss out on so many things that only poverty can bring them; and a good amount of the rich are acutely aware of this fact even if they try to hide it. The poor are definitely acutely aware of the difference between what the rich have and what they don’t, for it’s a much more obvious richness. And yet, I find that there is a certain degree of richness to the person who is found away from such entrapments of the flesh. A richness that can’t really be quantified. I like the gaudiness and flashiness of finery; I love the sweetness, but like a good ice cream or other treat; it’s often too rich for me to handle and I need something a little more down to earth and more my speed.
I ran across this one day while looking for something similar and I really liked it because it summed up a lot. Of course, a lot of people are quick to remind us of what is bad about ghetto’s and slums, but those people often aren’t told what’s good in those things and they often don’t realize how hard it is to live a life that we really can’t rise above because of how ostracized we are and become based on surroundings and the lessons we learn while we grow. You’d be surprised that many kids become felons because they’re pushed to be so by hate or negativity they’re confronted with too early and then when they try to rise above it to get an actual job, they get judged. There’s no middle ground for them to rehabilitate because they often lack the money and we see so many people fall to death in all the wrong ways; actual death. The rich, they see the same things from their perspectives, but they sugar-coat it and try to infuse it with some artificial sweetener to make it seem like something other than what it is.
We like to think of each other as enemies; the rich and the poor; but in the end, we have more in common than we realize; each just following our dreams differently based on what we have been given in life and what we have been deprived. I think that there is no true difference and both sides try to find their enemy in other men who seem different than them than confronting the actual enemy that lives inside of them. We keep expecting one or the other to be evil and to be against us when none of us really want to fight each other; we just don’t understand what all the big fuss is about finding middle ground and we each can’t understand why the other doesn’t see things from our perspective.
It is a truth that those who work hard and get somewhere feel fulfilled and think that it’s something everyone can do, but it’s not. What do you think is/are the major difference(s) between rich and poor?
I think the major difference between the rich and poor is opportunities. It is decided by the place of birth. In Africa, absolute proverty decided their young generation to be poor. They have lack of opportunity to be educated. Their society has no upward opportunities. Therefore, they are born to be poor. For most of us in the cities, the line between rich and poor is different from Africa. We are divided into billionaries (the rich), millionaires (the middle class) and the root (the bottom class). Even though the bottom class in weathy society are poor, they seldom face hunger like Africa. In the whole, the intensity of poverty varies from place to place.
The main difference between the rich and poor lies on “opportunity”. Everyone was born to be. You are lucky if you have a silver spoon in your mouth when you are born. Otherwise, you have to wait for another opportunity.
There is a correlation to he sure between the rich on spirit and the poor and vica versa. When very poor I was able to dream to dissect reality to journey other worlds on my magic carpet. I saw immense luxury in extreme poverty the odor of those haunting places traversed time to destinations only salty dogs could experience within the blue shadow of their most secret hideaways. to experience real and simultaneously need
Redemption.
As flickering yesterdays mixed the indigo with the scarlet.
Only in this poverty can true wealth be realized.
The green fields forever kiss the frozen Poverty’s nocturnal visits as souls meet and briefly for a moment touch.
Yeah, no one wants to be in poverty. The only reason they’re happy to have come to value the things people in poverty do, is because those things alleviate the suffering a little. Everyone would rather have enough to cover their needs than not.
I wouldn’t mind living in poverty. Of course I want more. that’s the problem. This more, more, more syndrome. People are not happier the more material objects they have, no matter what they show to the world around them. They can be happy even if they have material objects, but it’s not often a true happiness because they often don’t know who they are without all of that. Of course everyone would rather have enough to cover their needs and that’s not the problem, because there has always been enough for them to do so. The entire problem has been the assholes who keep control of all the resources and demand people to dance a certain tune so they can get paid and go buy food that had naturally grown on this Earth up until men took control of it.
You can be happy no matter what life you live or what situation you’re in as long as you know your self. It’s great to think that material objects can help by bringing people to higher material needs, but it’s a bit too unrealistic and highly supported by our society that is anything but happy. People have material objects to ease the suffering and it becomes an addiction instead of just manning the fuck up and dealing with the pain and suffering.
The rich can’t often hold a candle to the spirit of a poor man, because that poor man A. has nothing to lose and B. knows himself and C. Loves the world around him more than he does any man that tries to take that love away and D. doesn’t place as much value in the dollar, otherwise he would probably already have whupped their asses by playing their own game and beating them at it. A good amount of people never realize this about themselves and they waste away for wanting to do better in life and not realizing that they want something else more. They fail to put the hard work into it because it’s simply not as important to them. Wealth is really only important up to a certain point and then it’s only so much flashery and showing off.
Cause, I’m going to tell you what, gentlemen. Almost everybody in this world is smart enough to play at politics and economics and come out on top if they just put the hard work into it; but that hard work undermines the hard work that goes into knowing our selves and it only fills the hole that was left where true richness should be. It’s not everyones priority and yet you’re trying to make it be so. Material objects are not everything even though some people give way too much attention to them. You can’t take them with you when you die and they can always be taken away by someone else and you can still be left with nothing.
The poor often find something that can’t ever be taken away by any other person. And that’s why the poor are so looked down upon and kept down and stopped from making the impact on this world that they should.