My parents both grew up poor, with their parents almost never at the house. As a plan to get out of poverty, they both joined the military, had the military pay for their education, and got respectable jobs. My mother is currently in the process of becoming a doctor and my father has been an Xray tech for well over two decades. My mom graduated with her bachelor's in nursing when I was 5, got an associate degree in massage therapy when I was 10, her master's in nursing when I was 12, and another associate degree in business management when I was 14. While my mom worked full-time jobs in nursing homes and went to school my dad worked his way up the management ladder in his hospital job. Both were extremely hard-working and competitive with each other. They had managed to work their way from the very bottom and get all the way to the upper middle class.
My parents have always told me about the struggles they had to face growing up due to poverty and how people in poverty are just not working hard enough to become something of themselves. They would always sight everything that they had done as proof of what every poor person could do if they put their mind to it. They had also always warned me to stay away from poor people, because in their minds poor people were just people looking for free handouts because they didn't want to work for it.
Below please find a video of what it's like to be poor.
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