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Look, my family's in a situation where the living prices are sucking us dry and nearly putting us in debt, all the jobs around here have so many candidates to p

Look, my family's in a situation where the living prices are sucking us dry and nearly putting us in debt, all the jobs around here have so many candidates to pick from that we can't get any roles, and because we have no savings we can't afford to move. Maybe what you say can be true for some, but it's hard to survive here if you weren't already born into a privileged position. I finally happen to be in interviews for a potential remote position now, but it took years to get here, it was not easy, and staying in high school for longer would not have helped. Now, I'm still lucky to have access to computers. Try telling someone without that kind of access to just find a remote job if there are no local jobs in their area. All the education and skill in the world still might not help them if they don't have access to employment opportunities at all.

umvi 3y ago
In your case then perhaps a cash infusion is what is needed to help. Based on my observations of poverty in the Washington DC/Baltimore regions though, in my opinion cash infusions alone would not be the most effective option for combating poverty in the majority of cases.
- LoganDark 3y ago
  I think I agree. While I'm still not sure if a majority of poverty is a result of lack of skill/education, I do at least very much agree that if you take a random impoverished household and give them a bunch of cash, there's a decent enough chance that they won't know how to make good use of it. In other words, they'll blow it all without managing to significantly improve their situation. I also, however, wonder if maybe government assistance should be available to people who can lay out a clear financial plan, so that at least the households that could make use of that money can have it available to them. That probably could have saved us much earlier - we can afford to do the research on where we can go in order to stretch our money further (to have an acceptable standard of living, but at a less extortionary price), but we'd need a cash injection in order to make it there. Once there, though, our existing rate of income might finally have been able to break even, even if we don't manage to immediately find new jobs. Of course, if I manage to get my upcoming job, that'll save us too. It'll multiply the family income by, what, almost 6 times?

umvi 3y ago

In your case then perhaps a cash infusion is what is needed to help. Based on my observations of poverty in the Washington DC/Baltimore regions though, in my opinion cash infusions alone would not be the most effective option for combating poverty in the majority of cases.

LoganDark 3y ago
I think I agree. While I'm still not sure if a majority of poverty is a result of lack of skill/education, I do at least very much agree that if you take a random impoverished household and give them a bunch of cash, there's a decent enough chance that they won't know how to make good use of it. In other words, they'll blow it all without managing to significantly improve their situation. I also, however, wonder if maybe government assistance should be available to people who can lay out a clear financial plan, so that at least the households that could make use of that money can have it available to them. That probably could have saved us much earlier - we can afford to do the research on where we can go in order to stretch our money further (to have an acceptable standard of living, but at a less extortionary price), but we'd need a cash injection in order to make it there. Once there, though, our existing rate of income might finally have been able to break even, even if we don't manage to immediately find new jobs. Of course, if I manage to get my upcoming job, that'll save us too. It'll multiply the family income by, what, almost 6 times?