You didn't learn much at all then. To think that being poor and having a tendency to make bad decisions, is just a matter of having developed negative personal habits throughout your life is just plain naive and ignorant.
Poor people are not just personally poor, they were raised by poor parents who taught them different values, albeit seemingly dumb ones (though I know a lot of poor people who are wayyy happier than a lot of wealthy people I know following the note card). They were taken to crappy schools, if their parents took them, or made them go at all. They were fed all sorts of unhealthy food their whole lives. They're lied to relentlessly by businesses saying things are healthy, will help them, or are good decisions (always campaigns run by wealthy people taken advantage of poor people).
They have everything around them working against them, and some dumb, naive, asshat, born to the middle class, thinks (s)he was poor for a little while and it was kind of enlightening and fun, ignorant guy telling them to put money in a 401k. Will it put rims on my car, because that would make me happy? When I'm 65? Fuck that.
Poor people are not just personally poor, they were raised by poor parents who taught them different values, albeit seemingly dumb ones (though I know a lot of poor people who are wayyy happier than a lot of wealthy people I know following the note card). They were taken to crappy schools, if their parents took them, or made them go at all. They were fed all sorts of unhealthy food their whole lives. They're lied to relentlessly by businesses saying things are healthy, will help them, or are good decisions (always campaigns run by wealthy people taken advantage of poor people).
They have everything around them working against them, and some dumb, naive, asshat, born to the middle class, thinks (s)he was poor for a little while and it was kind of enlightening and fun, ignorant guy telling them to put money in a 401k. Will it put rims on my car, because that would make me happy? When I'm 65? Fuck that.