The poor don't live in functional market economies as the rest of us do, but in political economies where corruption and broken systems extend from local government to moneylenders.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In large commercial cities, the money power is, I fear irresistible. It is not by open corruption that it always, or even most generally, operates.
As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.
Most poor people live in the poorest countries.
Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere. It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum. No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.
Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.
The poor are the only consistent altruists; they sell all they have and give it to the rich.
In my experience, poor people are the world's greatest entrepreneurs. Every day, they must innovate in order to survive. They remain poor because they do not have the opportunities to turn their creativity into sustainable income.
Most people believe, mistakenly, that wealth in a human society has something to do with money, but that's not true. Money is simply a medium of exchange. Prosperity in a human society is the accumulation of solutions to human problems that we create for ourselves.
Well, the role of money in politics is pretty corrupting right now.
The rich don't work for money - the rich invent money.