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Quote from: Davidvictorson on June 03, 2024, 09:41:24 AM

Quote from: philipma1957 on June 03, 2024, 01:42:53 AM

greedy rich powerful people that simply do not give a fuck about common folks.

As a Nigerian, this is to best reply that summarizes the situation of my country. And to make it worse the common folks keep worshiping the greedy rich and powerful people. It is almost as if they've been held spell bound. The greedy rich and powerful people will steal the the nation's resources and impoverish the common folks, yet they will keep cheering them on. They are like a sheep being led to the slaughter house and despite knowing their demise is near, they do not about it. The people love their chains.

Very funny but true, the problem about most poor people is that sometimes they get stucked up to poverty mindset to the extent they see themselves as people that don't have choice. They comit their lives to the rich and the rich use them and gives them peanuts. and they become stock to those things given to them by making themselves dipendent to the rich, and the rich take advantage of it and suppress them and they become blindfolded even when they are about to be slaughtered they don't care.

One perspective that I have based on this is that the poor are not slaves, but they act like they are because they work for the money while the rich make money work for them. So this is where many people take different perspectives on this concept. For instance, a poor man will work very hard just to get paid, and when he has any financial issues, he will go and borrow money from the bank or a rich man, and let's say the rich man also has the money to lend the poor man. but he will go elsewhere and borrow that money and tell the poor man that he will collect his farm produce after harvest as a return

So here this poor farmer will be happy and admit that the rich man is his saviour, not knowing that he has made himself a slave for the man because of a small amount of money. So in here I see this happen because the poor see themselves as loyal to the money while the rich see money as their slaves, so that is where all this usually comes from. This is my perspective.