the thread asks the wrong question....

humans are naturally poor.... the question is not why people are poor... everyone is born broke. the question is why are rich people rich....

btw xeno I never asked you

what IS the hungarian phrase for "my hovercraft is full of eels"

> Justinian I wrote:

> I'm poor living off of $400/mo, live in the US, and my only complaints are that I can no longer afford a car, strippers and alcohol.

The reason I'm poor is because working full time is no fun.

when were you able to afford strippers? and when did you own a car? I thought you had a bike and a dog

huh i wonder if i would be considered poor back in the states?

There was a guy in USA who was homeless.  He is a megamillionaire now.

In USA you have to be lazy to be poor.  Ofc with socialism here we will all be poor.

Gotta hate paying people to be lazy

I have a hard time visualizing scarcity of resources as a root cause of poverty.  mainly because that seems incredibly general.  what resources would have to be scarce in order to cause poverty? foodstuffs? ore's? consumer products?

The more scarce a resource the more expensive it is. Cities are environments in which the resources necessary for survival are scarce.  There aren't vegetables to be picked by anyone in need growing on the roofs of office buildings.

Vegetables are grown tens if not hundreds of miles away from city centers, making them scarce in the cities.  Also, you are living in a capitalistic economy, wherever the vegetables are grown, the vegetables are still scarce unless you happen to own the land upon which the vegetables are being grown.  In communist areas, where the land isn't really owned by anyone in particular and people just go out and plant crops wherever they can, the vegetables are still scarce because 1. people are generally lazy and don't plant enough and / or 2. people are generally greedy and if given the opportunity will harvest vegetables that others planted and / or 3.  people are stupid and planted vegetables in areas where they wouldn't grow well enough.

Do tell, flint.  How am I wrong?

The very fact that cities exist in the first place, creating communities that can't grow food and instead importing food from rural communities, proves you wrong, as it indicates that it's more cost-effective to have urban communities that can take advantages of the benefits of urbanization (centralized distribution of goods at stores, large-scale industrial production capacity, large flows of capital for investment opportunities, and a huge customer base for goods and services).

There is poor because there are social classes.

That's it.

There will always be "poor"

The world has already been "financially monopolized" and those people will not give up their power. That means there will be poor people. That's all.