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@teacherbuknoy@masto.ai"If you were born into poverty and you die in #poverty, it's all your fault" peeves me so much because it reeks of insensitivity, it is out of touch with reality, and it just makes the person who said it feel good about themselves.
Do you even know how hard it is to get out of poverty when you were born into it? It's virtually impossible for at least three generations, and that is if you're lucky.
I live in an informal settlement called DM Compound in Caloocan City. I moved here when I was 7, and I've seen people my age stop going to school, make questionable life decisions, and build they're own miserable and poor families with more than 3 kids.
No one really knows now what DM actually means, but for many, it now stands for "’Di Makalabas" (can't get out), because once you're here, there's no going out.
Poverty is an institutional problem. You are very near-sighted if you don't recognize that. Sure, poor families are financially illiterate, they bear too many kids, they don't manage their expenses, and they keep stopping going to school. But did you ever stop and think for a moment why this scenario is very common in poor families, not just here, but in the entire world?
This dumb statement often comes from people who were born into poverty but got out and transformed their families' lives into middle-class lifestyles. They got out easily, so they think everyone can do it with just a little more hard work.
They fail to recognize that (1) they just got lucky with the opportunities that came their way, and (2) they are one sickness and hospitalization away from being in debt and poor again. They are not as financially successful as they think they are.