How poverty changes your mindset

Re:How poverty changes your mindset by zouhair on Sunday February 25, 2018 @08:33PM (#16462364)

In most societies being poor is shameful, asking for help is twice as shameful. Even if someone that is poor and read your comment will most likely post an answer.

When poor people get things for "free" (like charity, I hate charity) they actually pay with pride and dignity.

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Re:How poverty changes your mindset by Viliam1234 on Monday February 26, 2018 @02:43AM (#16463802)

Depends on the form of charity (and that includes government assistance).

Give me basic income, and I will feel no loss of dignity.

Make me stand in a line for a few hours (what's the problem wasting my time, if I am unemployed anyway, right?), fill out a ton of paperwork, send me back to collect signatures from my former employers that I really did work for them three years ago (because everyone deserves to be told that I have a problem now, especially my former employers), and so on... then I will consider not eating for a few weeks a more dignified option.

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Re:How poverty changes your mindset by zouhair on Monday February 26, 2018 @05:01AM (#16464257)

Definitely, this said I won't call basic income charity. The difference is that charity is not a right but BI is. The same way when big corporations receive millions and millions of dollars in government subsidies they don't "feel" it as charity.

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