The news are more about the lack or money than about the lack of health.
By marguicha
@marguicha (222989)
Chile
August 25, 2020 10:32pm CST
I don´t know what is happening in your country with the pandemics. But in mine, the lockdown has shown an amount of poverty that used to be hidden.
The news show queues of people waiting to get a small amount of help in money from the government.
Other times they show how the government is helping the needy with a box of food. I wonder if anyone falls for that and decides that the government is awesome. The box has a kilo of rice, a kilo of flour and a can of the worst tuna. Not much more.
Some poor peoplewill not receive that for one reason or other while in other neighborhoods, people who have means get the extra help.
I start to write about this and discover that, after all, this is a rant. The problems in my country have little to do with the COVID and a lot with the injustice as money goes. There are people who earn 10 or 20 times what others do. This must change.
How is it where you live?
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@amitkokiladitya (171927)
• Agra, India
26 Aug 20
Because the main basis of life is money and this is a hard and true fact
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@amitkokiladitya (171927)
• Agra, India
26 Aug 20
@marguicha yes. And lack of money for basic needs is always so hard to deal with
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@marguicha (222989)
• Chile
26 Aug 20
I don´t believe that God will provide. But rich people should help. They can do it.
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@rhuenz (10643)
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26 Aug 20
@marguicha Everything on earth ,is from God.Why he cannot provide?
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@marguicha (222989)
• Chile
26 Aug 20
@rhuenz He won´t let you find a jewel you lost. He will make you strong to accept it.
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@marguicha (222989)
• Chile
26 Aug 20
I think that in my country more could be done.
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@marguicha (222989)
• Chile
31 Aug 20
@LadyDuck I agree. There is a point as wealth goes where money doesn´t serve any pirpose.
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@marguicha (222989)
• Chile
26 Aug 20
It is a shame, specially when the minimum wages are so little. Now that there is a pandemic, poor people live in such small places that if one gets it, the rest of the family will get it too.
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@LadyDuck (471500)
• Switzerland
27 Aug 20
@marguicha I never understood why the important managers of the big companies should get million dollar bonuses every year. With that amount of money they could pay the normal workers a lot better.
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@marguicha (222989)
• Chile
27 Aug 20
The are a lot of homeless everywhere. And there are lots of people who want to flee from their native countries for political or economic reasons.
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@marguicha (222989)
• Chile
27 Aug 20
@TheHorse I suppose that when the life they have is too bad, with no expectations, it is easy to listen to chants of mermaids saying that other places are better. The so called "American dream" is one of them.
@TheHorse (218803)
• Walnut Creek, California
27 Aug 20
@marguicha What kinds of "nirvana" do they expect to find elsewhere?
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@LindaOHio (178568)
• United States
26 Aug 20
I'm sorry that things are so tough for you. We are on Social Security and have managed to be comfortable with that and pensions, etc. Hopefully things will change in your country.
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@porwest (90823)
• United States
26 Aug 20
I feel your pain and understand your sentiment, but poverty really is a choice. I know that is probably controversial in most people's eyes, and hard for people to truly grasp. But largely it is true. Granted, Chile is a very different country economically than America is, and of course my perspective is an American one. But opportunity abounds, and people either take advantage of it, or they don't. It's just the way it is. Not all people who are rich had great jobs, for example. I know a guy who worked in fast food his whole life who is now a millionaire and I know a lawyer who is broke. It is never about how much you make. It is about what you do with it.
If I can save, let's say $1000 and another person can save $1000, the outcome and the result of what I make on that savings depends largely on where I PUT it. The average person might put it into a regular savings account, for example, that makes 0.01%. His $1000 becomes $1001. I may put my $1000 into a stock that pays 6% in dividends and my $1000 is worth $1006.
I may earn $30,000 per year and my friend may earn $30,000 per year. I may save 10% of that and invest it while my friend may spend all $30,000. Another friend who ALSO earns $30,000 may not only spend his entire $30,000, but use credit cards to spend MORE.
As for hardships, it is LARGELY been rule #1 that EVERYONE must have at the very least 6 months worth of living expenses saved up so that in the event of loss of income you can still at least take care of expenses until you can find new work.
People are also supposed to have emergency funds in place so that they can handle car repairs, a furnace going out, or some other expensive thing that happens to occur.
The problem is that people choose not to do this. And when the bottom drops out on them they expect others to bail them out AND turn around and blame the system and blame the rich.
If a squirrel does not make sure he has enough nuts stored away for winter, he will starve. Who's fault is it if the squirrel starves who does not store enough nuts? And is the other squirrels fault for having too many nuts or not SHARING their nuts?
I feel for these people. I truly do. But I don't feel bad for their situation so much as I feel bad for their lack of planning and lack of doing what's right, only to lay blame somewhere else when disaster strikes.
Something MUST change. You are right about that. MORE people need to be educated on money matters and need to learn how to take care of themselves. That's the change that is needed. Survival of the fittest. If one cannot take care of themselves it should be no one else's responsibility nor obligation to do it for them.
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@marguicha (222989)
• Chile
26 Aug 20
I am paying a maid $38 a day (8 hours work) and I am paying well. I cannot afford to have her more than one day a week as my retirement pension is US $235 a month. I am a retired professor at the university and I´m slowly eating an inheritance from my mother. I am sure that in my country, some people don´t have any choices. At least, I am educated and can eat very well with little money. That is my choice: to cook good food and save.
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@marguicha (222989)
• Chile
26 Aug 20
@porwest BTW, I don´t have a wife that can be my maid. And after chemotherapy (cancer) I don´t have the energy to do some things.
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@porwest (90823)
• United States
26 Aug 20
@marguicha That is pretty good that you have means to afford a maid. I have VERY good means, but do not have one. My wife is my maid.
I think you have the right idea in your comment, but your post did not seem to suggest that, hence my comment. My belief is simply that when it comes to money, you get out of it what you put into it, and that includes the effort you put in to save it and allow it to grow. If you don't do the right things when it comes to money it is no one's fault but the person who does not have it. There ARE certain instances where even the best efforts won't matter. But those are very few and far between. Most people who are poor are poor for a very good reason, and unless you can educate them on money matters, no matter how much money you give them, it will be of no help to them.
Goes along the old biblical line of feed a man a fish and he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime.
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@jvicentevalera (13671)
• Santiago, Chile
26 Aug 20
Unfortunately the current pandemic has proven something, many countries around the world weren't prepared for such matter, and also it has unleashed how poor the world is, in every aspect.
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@marguicha (222989)
• Chile
26 Aug 20
Yet, it seems that there is enough food in the planet for everyone. But the distribution is poor.
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@Nakitakona (56486)
• Philippines
26 Aug 20
Ours is worst. The poor and the needy have a budget allotted for them but they don't receive. If they, it's being cut.
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@Nakitakona (56486)
• Philippines
27 Aug 20
@marguicha That's how corruption works here.
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@marguicha (222989)
• Chile
27 Aug 20
@Nakitakona Here there is also negligence.
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@jefferson126 (3270)
• Shenzhen, China
27 Aug 20
Turst me,you can see unfair case everywhere,but we need adapt to realistic life.although there is a bad side in life,there is a good side meantime.No matter what time it is,the poor will suffer more when the disaster came,because they had less rosource to resist the disaster,or disease or something else,this is well-known principle.Thus,most people work hard to earn money or wealth,they known only if they get rid of poverty,they can lead a better life.
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@marguicha (222989)
• Chile
26 Aug 20
Many people are going to Australia if they want to work hard.
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