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Re:Once poor, always poor? by duxup on Monday December 27, 2021 @12:40AM (#29699712)
> When the social workers are driving in BMW's and talking to you like you're retarded...

Man what social workers get BMWs?

Re:Once poor, always poor? by nopenopenopeno on Monday December 27, 2021 @01:53AM (#29700136)
As it happens, My neighbor in my apartment building is literally a social worker who drives a BMW.
Re:Once poor, always poor? by bigmattystyles on Monday December 27, 2021 @02:19AM (#29700280)
I mean, it could be a 2006 318i with 200k+ miles. BMW means nothing.
Re:Once poor, always poor? by hackcasual on Monday December 27, 2021 @02:31AM (#29700330)
Or they could have generational wealth. This whole thing reminds me of the ugliness that was the anti-welfare propaganda of the 70's
Re:Once poor, always poor? by anovikov on Monday December 27, 2021 @04:00AM (#29700792)
What's wrong about it? I can only praise a person who has generational wealth and doesn't need to work, yet chose the socially beneficial occupation of a social worker (which is neither well-paid nor, let's be honest, well-respected, but necessary job), to do their part?
Re:Once poor, always poor? by sh4un on Monday December 27, 2021 @07:03AM (#29701787)
It's all trust. This is what makes this hard, and you can see here no one has experience in this field so everyone has a dumb ass comment.

A lot of people regardless of status will still try to have pride. I used to help homeless people and they would often have a lot of trust issues and often prefer to be homeless rather than help.

While a social worker may dress up and drive a nice car because they have money, the poor people they are helping don't have trust in them for many reasons. One is that they have nothing, and then they see someone that wants to help and that person is getting richer while they are getting poorer.

Same reason people get miffed at donating to the United way only to find out the CEO was making something like 750k a year and asking me to donate 10% of my pay automatically deducted to them. Lol

Re:Once poor, always poor? by BitAstronaut on Monday December 27, 2021 @03:38AM (#29700657)
It could also be that they prioritize their car and have a budget adjusted for it.
Re:Once poor, always poor? by tudorw on Monday December 27, 2021 @04:17AM (#29700880)
the only Lambo owner I ever met had saved since he was 14 and had nothing else but his car...
Re:Once poor, always poor? by dijit on Monday December 27, 2021 @09:51AM (#29702896)
Jesus christ, even a 16yo Lambo is $100,000 (which is an unthinkable amount of money for a British person on average salary).

For context my mums 2 bed house in Coventry was not much more than that, and she's still paying off that mortgage.

Re:Once poor, always poor? by tudorw on Monday December 27, 2021 @01:10PM (#29704979)
I guess a decade of sofa surfing would just about cover that!
Re:Once poor, always poor? by dragonwriter on Monday December 27, 2021 @09:59AM (#29702970)
> Man what social workers get BMWs?

well, BMWs tend to last a while and very old ones are often affordable but reasonably functional used cars, so probably quite a few.

If you mean new BMWs, then ones that are wealthy from some other source and doing social work for self-fulfillment.

Re:Once poor, always poor? by duud on Monday December 27, 2021 @05:32AM (#29701266)
Re:Once poor, always poor? by anamax on Monday December 27, 2021 @01:54AM (#29700141)
There are "tourists," well-off people who "slum" as social workers or on projects.

Managers can also do well.

And then there are the fraudsters.