Well why don't you elaborate instead of making silly comments? How much did your family make? How many ppl were their? Simple things like that prove your statements... Or disprove... What EV's...
You want truth? I'll give you truth ...
I was born in 1947 - we were 'Appalachia poor' - got running water in the house in 1958, and toilets the next year - our first tv was in 1961. We heated the house with wood we cut every summer. Lived on government cheese, corn meal, and illegal venison. So, I know poor ...
There were eight of us ... not including my grandma who slept on our couch until she died. My dad worked 12 hours a day as an auto mechanic ... my mom took care of the kids, raised a garden and the animals. I remember the time when my old man came home all excited because he got a pay raise to $2.10 an hour. Picked green beans for $.05/lb starting when I was 9. Then, it was blueberries in the fall. We sold them at a stand beside the road. When I turned 15, I worked at a grocery/general store - $0.75/hour (big money!!) - it went into the family fund. We were the kids who got two pair of overalls every fall (even my sister) and a pair of shoes. We lived in hand-me-downs and donations. So,yeah, I know poor ...
I got out of that ... Got my bachelor's in journalism and my Masters in political science (thanks to the Air Force). When I was in high school, I took several college courses - when I was drafted, and joined the USAF instead, I parlayed that into their education programs. Worked my ass off ... refused to be refused. In my twenty years in the Air Force, I always had two jobs ... I pumped more gas than most Arab sheiks. So, I served active duty, went to school, AND worked a second job. If you want to do it bad enough, you will figure out a way to do it.
None of that means a thing ... but, yet, it means everything. If you want out bad enough, you can get out. If I can do it, anybody can do it. If you don't want it bad enough, you can always find an excuse to not get it. THAT is how the real world works.
But, you're right about one thing ... I have little or no sympathy with those who whine and complain about how the 'system' held them back, or how the 'man' kept them down. That's all self-serving bull****. If you can only make a nickel shining shoes, it just means you have to shine more shoes. If you only get a nickel picking beans, you just have to pick more beans. If you don't want to shine shoes or pick beans, get your ass out of there ... join the military, move to another town. Do whatever you have to do ... unless, of course, you're able to convince yourself that it's not your fault - that you're the victim.
But, by all means, complain about the system - claim how it holds you back. It's true - it does. We subsidize non-performance. We fail to reward those who excel. Our whole school system is built to hold back the performers while we carry the non-performers. Why work at a sh*tty job when you can make just as much on welfare? $40K for doing nothing? Sign me up. We have robbed our poor of the incentive of upward movement. We have created a permanent underclass of poor ... and we did it so we could fell all warm and giggly about how we helped 'those poor downtrodden'. Their plight feeds our societal ego ... and we should be ashamed.
Where did I end up? Built my own company based on knowledge gained in the Air Force. Built my second company in Brazil. I'm retired now, and quite comfortably, I must admit. Anybody CAN do what I did .. they just have to WANT to bad enough.