The poor not only deserve our sympathy; we should also be prepared to help them. If you refuse to do that, you are an anti-social philistine.
One might be tempted to conclude that anti-social philistinism only happens in the middle and upper classes. Well, here is news for you: this social mildew is also common among the lower classes. In their case, poverty becomes a privilege, because it produces no obligations, only rights.
Hartz IV dynasties flourish on the fertile soil of moneys paid by a public hand that is both a caricature and charitable. Food and accommodations are provided for. The only requirement is that you have to use every trick in the book in order to “qualify” as poor – and tax money will flow your way. You are never expected to do anything in return.
Children as “the capital of the poor man” are not a workforce in the classical sense; instead, they trigger additional subsidies. Their education is delegated to the provider of public education – at zero cost.
As soon as there is the slightest pain when you relieve yourself, you go and see the doctor. After all, it is free!
This is how you can flee the embarrassing rat race of daily similarities in this ruthless achievement-oriented society of give and take. Welcome to the paradise of demands.
Relief organizations and hard-working volunteers add to the display of goodies.
Clever marketing brains discovered the potential of those “poor ones” a long time ago. See: the “Mäc Geiz” chain.
Well, it had to be said by one who is socially very active.
My Friend Harvey Says:
Dowd, you are a fool
You lost control of your perspective management.
You accuse the poor of desires they do not have at all.
These are your own concepts, which you project to the poor.
You are offended, because the banner carried by the middle classes: Achievement=Income is not carried by the poor, as well.
Incidentally, the rich do not carry it either, their riches come from capital.
The truly dissocial are the poor and the rich.
Both are provided for by the state.
By you, true middle-class hard-working man, who, each year, works exclusively for them until the end of July.
Your taxes protect the money of the rich after their best assistants, the banks, have blown it.
Your tax money enables caritas and other charities to care for the poor with one million employees.
Do you really believe your words will make a difference?
You fool.
Who other than you yourself would be interested?
The poor enjoy remaining poor, because then they need not do anything for others, instead of having done something to them.
Which is exactly how the rich see it.
And the same is true for the assisting economy and the financial business.
My dear Harvey, I might have known that you know what the snag is.
The dissocial are provided for by the state. The same is true for the retired persons and civil servants. Consequently, the dissocial are catapulted from the margin existence into the majority and to normalcy.
Society is anti-social.
Who would have thought so (Elwood P. Dowd).
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