Help yourself and other poors: join a union and a communist party!
Help yourself then, it’s not like only others deserve it
The irony is that most positions to help to poor make you poor. Social work pays terribly. Nonprofit salaries are low. They entice young people into volunteer positions when they’re drowning in student debt and have barely any personal savings. You really make a sacrifice.
Working as intended
Help the poor -> Help I’m poor
The poorest are those who help. Teachers, nurses, care providers, child care, service workers, retail employees.
If you want to be helpful you’re gonna pay for it.
Almost all these people make more than I did in my career, they are not the poorest by a long shot
Teachers make $40k-$60k a year depending on the region. They aren’t rich your job is bad.
*in the US
Must be an American thing. Where I live, teachers make 65k-110k depending on experience and position.
All I ever hear is “oh the poor teachers” when they get paid more than me, get way better benefits, and get away more time off. Fuck the teachers.
What career did you do?
You had it even worse, by your standards they are rich, it’s a lavish lifestyle you were very poor your career was so bad
I was poor in 99 already
Good so you have experience 😁
“Lord, I don’t even need a billion, I could do a lot of good work with just $100 million. Because it’s not about the money for me.”
I’m not even poor. But by god, it’s hard to find hours in the day or money in the bank to do anything that feels material and meaningful.
I’ve got great news for you! Even with little money (from a Western point of view) you can still have a huge impact on people in poorer countries
That’s being poor
You can sustain yourself (very comfortably) without having the industrial scale resources to affect your community in the aggregate.
I feel this. I help where I can and it feels like an infinitely deep abyss of need unfillable by what resources I can provide. In times past I’ve been able to come up with $1000 to help someone and before its been the difference between life success and failure. Now $1000 may only fix a single problem for the person and they have 3 to 4 other problems of equal weight with equal consequences. So fixing the one still causes their lives to go off the rails from the other remaining problems.
It makes me feel helpless to not be able to do anything meaningful.
i’m in a similar situation, not poor, but not making enough to get ahead or do anything.
that’s not poor. i’ve been poor. this isn’t that
Don’t let that stop you Form Helling the poor!
If you need help chances are good your city town whathaveyou has support systems you can take advantage of to get back on your feet.
