Staying Poor Is The Most Expensive Thing In Life
What do you think? Do you think it’s true? How do we define the value of something? How do we define if something is expensive or not? I can remember seeing a quote made by someone saying “staying poor is difficult, staying rich is difficult, so choose your difficulty”. Staying poor is so expensive that everyone has to work so hard everyday to make sure they leave that situation. For instance, when someone is poor, everything automatically becomes expensive and unaffordable. We say something is expensive when it’s not affordable right? Well that’s the life of a poor man, he can’t afford anything because he is poor.
But when you are rich, nothing is expensive anymore to you. You can achieve anything you want, you want a new car, you are getting it, you want a new house, you are buying it. Nothing is expensive to you, but a poor man can’t relate because everything is expensive to him, down to the food he eats or place he stays. I personally think that’s one of the most difficult life to live in the world.
Once again all these is due to social economic construct because we have normalized the classification of people based on the value they are worth and we have given capitalism a norm. That’s why it’s cool for someone to own money big enough to feed a nation and allow someone be so poor that they can’t feed theirselves for a day.
Poverty is so expensive that when a poor man finally gets a big break out of it, they start having trauma. Not the kind of trauma you think. I mean financial trauma. Let me explain, when people are poor they see basic things that rich people do as being wasteful. For instance a poor man can barely feed himself for a day, but a wealthy man don’t mind spending $1000 on some caviar. To the poor man that’s wasteful but to the wealthy man that’s his lifestyle and it’s normal. Now imagine the poor man getting rich or working hard to finally get rich, do you think it will feel normal to him to drop $1000 on some caviar? I will like to see your replies in the comment.
I heard about a man that was born so poor but had a valuable skill that gave him massive wealth. His passion for his skills made him the best at what he did, he made so much money for the company he worked for, the company wanted to appreciate him, they bought him a Range Rover. The trauma of being poor made him feel like a Range Rover was a wastage, he said he preferred riding his bicycle to work everyday, than driving this expensive car to work. He feels that the money used to buy the car could be used to feed a lot of hungry poor children. While this is coming from a kind considerate heart that knows what it feels to be poor, it’s also coming from a poverty traumatized heart. The thing he doesn’t know is that, there is enough money to feed poor children and also enough for him to Ride a Range Rover.
That’s the social economic community we find ourselves. People work so hard just not to stay poor, while some people are being hopeful that one day they will finally get that big financial break they have been hoping for, some people have lost hope and made peace with the fact that they might just end up being poor for life.
This is the gap crypto is bridging, right now we are seeing people make insane money from crypto and that’s great. I have seen more Nigerian youths make their first million Naira from crypto than their daily paid job. It gives that hopeful feeling that if you are investing in crypto for the long term, the chances of ending up very poor is slim, except you love just buying Shitcoins without utilities then you are gambling.
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ewww...tastes disgusting...no one in their right mind would pay more than $5 for the stuff, just so they can start a fishery...lol
No, because it must be an acquired taste...lol...ok to be serious...no it will not feel normal to drop $1000 on some caviar unless the poor man who has become rich understands that he's buying this $1000 caviar for a client who is paying him millions. In that case, it is not a waste. I've been in debt to my eyeballs once upon a time and would find that much spent on caviar to be a waste for my own indulgence, but throw in a client who is dropping 100x-1000x that cost on me and I'll give them several $1000 dishes of it. I used to think I was poor, but I've travelled to other countries now. I was never poor, just never wealthy or rich. America's poor are the world's middle/upper class. The middle class in America are the world's upper class, and the wealthy in America are the world's uber rich. Therefore, a poor person in America may think differently than a poor person in Chile, Venezuela, or from the favelas de Brazil. Again, should a poor person get to the "rich" class, they will have likely learned some lessons along the way showing that $1000 for caviar is foolish in some circumstances and brilliant in others.
This is true...and using the money one time to feed the children would do one day's worth of good. Using the money to teach vocational education would do a lifetime of good.
No, you're throwing your money away. Like Dave Ramsey says in the US, "The Lottery is a 'Stupid' tax." Anyone who buys these S-coins are paying a "Stupid" tax.
As for the caviar, imagine someone that grew up in excess wealth and fortune, do you think they will consider is wastage.
Yeah you are right that poor differ by country, but I was referring to the kind of poor that the person can’t afford the basic things in life like food, water and shelter. It should be the same right?
Your point was made. From my perspective and based on my limited experiences, I think the poor person could see value in it ...case in point...the Portuguese gather snails to eat. In other place, people pay an arm and a leg to order them in a restaurant...Nonetheless, the poor person doesn't see the value in it, but as they move up in the corporate world, they should start to see the value in it depending on the situation...to have it for Christmas dinner because they can? No...but to schmooze a cliet...sure
I think there is a different definition of poor depending on the county. For example I would say when I was a child , we had plenty of food and a house that was nice and warm, but not much money left after this so we were considered poor. I work hard now so my kids are not considered poor. I would say lower middle class now but I would love to have more money so I would not need to work anymore. That would be the dream. Now I wouldn't go blowing 1000 quid on fish eggs but I would buy myself a nice car and bigger house and I would be kind to myself that way
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That’s a good way to put it. But how do you define poverty?
I would define it as having no money to cover , food , bills, being in debt. Scraping by with no light at the end of the tunnel.
Exactly, this is the kind of poor am referring to, it’s not nice that the world can allow some set of people live in this state and allow some set of people have it in unnecessary abundance
You talk about the poor as if they themselves want to be poor. But who wants that? No one. Every one of us wants to escape poverty and scarcity. But not everyone succeeds. And often the reason is not in the person himself, as many, especially the preachers of successful success and financial prosperity, keep repeating. There are many objective reasons and life circumstances that prevent people from becoming rich, despite all his efforts and endeavors. And it is important to remain a decent person and not to lose one's soul and conscience.
I do not consider a person who gave up a Range Rover for starving children to be traumatized by poverty. On the contrary, those who buy $1,000 worth of caviar and fancy cars while turning their backs on alms to help the poor, the homeless, or the sick are traumatized.
You have a point, but don’t was not the idea of the post, no one wants to be poor.
Did you notice this part in the post? My point is the society has normalized excess wealth to a particular person as much as they have accepted abject poverty on specific people. Which is morally not right.
And what would change that? What do you suggest?