Why do people stay poor?

[Tony116]

I have always wanted to ask this question is it that there is no opportunity or they do not want to get rich
Mate please more to this I am confused here.

Coz they are lazy, spineless, hesitating and scared bunch of losers. Afraid to do. Scared to check. Lazy to begin. Dont have their own opinion.

I agree that lazy, weak and fearful people often lead to poverty. But not all poor people are like that, you should not equate them all. Many people still try every day, work hard, and even find ways to eat frugally but still can't get rich. Maybe they don't choose the right job, or they live in a country where corrupt people are in power... so many reasons why they can't revive their own economy. By the way, I want to ask, are you rich? I see you have a negative view of the poor.

[Mame89]

I have always wanted to ask this question is it that there is no opportunity or they do not want to get rich
Mate please more to this I am confused here.

In fact, the principle of the rich get richer, the poor get poorer does not always happen. All depends on effort, hard work and prayer. If you want to be rich but lazy, one day your wealth will run out, if you are poor but diligent and work hard you will be successful. The point is
1. Don't stop seeking knowledge
2. Deepen the knowledge of socializing and communication
3. Work hard and don't give up easily
4. Results will not betray effort.

And one more thing actually depends on your mindset too, if your mind is still ancient but times are advanced, yes you will automatically be left behind.

[TheGreatPython]

I myself am confused on why you’re asking why people remain poor and I think you created this thread for the fun of it. So, for the fun of it, I’ll drop my opinion on why people remain poor.

There are a lot of reasons on why poor folks remain poor and wealth creation is at the root of it all. The ability and opportunity to build and sustain wealth is not there for everyone.

The opportunities to create wealth is not readily available to the common man. And even if it were, the common man wouldn’t willingly part with his wee funds at hand. Inflation or any other economic crisis would hit the common man much harder than it would the rich individual.

I don’t think anyone would willfully choose to remain poor. Everyone(at least the people that I know) likes the good things life has to offer and would want to acquire valuable and luxury items. No one wants to dwell in poverty. Generally, we live in a capitalist society where money is used to create more wealth thus increasing the gap between the rich and the poor. And the poor individual barely has enough money to live on.

Well, that's the harsh reality of the world we live in, only the rich are getting richer because to make money, you need money, and poor people don't have the money they can use to generate more money. So they remain poor, not by choice or will but due to the situations and the constitutions of our countries and the world.

There is poverty in almost every corner of the world, at some places, too severe, and governments or authorities barely do anything to make things better, as I said earlier, they use their money to make more money for the future of their own and their loved ones while the poor survive.

[Farma]

Too many reasons for this. I know that they too have been trying to change their lives, and trying to have a lot of money. Among them, quite a few have succeeded, and many have failed. However, some of the circumstances that might make them still in that position are environmental factors, limited circumstances, doing the wrong way, lack of knowledge, laziness, and actually there are many more reasons that can be mentioned. However, this might be overcome or at least improve their economic status a little by studying, doing business, and continuing to try to do new things.

[Docnaster]

I don't think there's are best explanations to why people remain poor because to some people they are poor by choice while to others they're poor by fate.
The Poor people by choice are the ones who were born poor, grew up and saw that there valid opportunities that can be explored by working on them and creating societal riches and values from them, thereby changing their status quo from being poor but chose not to engage in these opportunities.
While the poor by fate are the ones who's really worked hard and maximized every opportunity that comes their ways and yet one way or the other their efforts wouldn't yields no fruit. In some parts of Africa, were meant to believe that these set of people financial fate has been decided by divinity before their birth.

[bettercrypto]

Not everyone who was born poor has the resources to get rich. Some our born with good looks, some gets lucky and some just doesn't really have anything. It  is really easier to say that they should just get up work to get rich because we are not in their shoes but if you dig deeper into reality, they are just trying to survive. Getting rich requires taking risks and risks are expensive.

That's why it's poor because there's no wealth, and sometimes the majority of the world is also poor because of the lack of knowledge on how to get out of poverty or advance in life.

      And there are others like poor people who no matter how much you teach or explain how to move forward in life, they cannot understand the advice given to them because their understanding is beyond their reach.

[xSkylarx]

Not everyone who was born poor has the resources to get rich. Some our born with good looks, some gets lucky and some just doesn't really have anything. It  is really easier to say that they should just get up work to get rich because we are not in their shoes but if you dig deeper into reality, they are just trying to survive. Getting rich requires taking risks and risks are expensive.

That's why it's poor because there's no wealth, and sometimes the majority of the world is also poor because of the lack of knowledge on how to get out of poverty or advance in life.

      And there are others like poor people who no matter how much you teach or explain how to move forward in life, they cannot understand the advice given to them because their understanding is beyond their reach.

There are still instances where they do not move forward even after you teach them, because first, if you teach them to invest this kind of money and they are just minimum wage earners, how can they find that money? Also, for most poor people right now, their income is just enough to pay for their food and no extra for anything else. That's the sad reality. We only can get out of poverty when we take risks, and only if we have the privilege to do it like we have investment money, someone will help us, or we got lucky. Getting out of poverty is difficult, mostly if you don't have support.

[Othellobit]

We are in a world where the rich see themselves as poor thereby collecting from the poor whom the inversely see as the rich, and adding more to their riches. With this, Many who weren't born with golden spoon sees no means of evolving into wealth. Poverty to me is an inextinct transition, It is a continuity. I don't thing there will be a time where that word will come to a complete exit. As long as the term corruption and inhumanity does not come to extinction,  poverty still remain.

[Rupok]

Everyone wants to get rich from different platforms.  Don't see anyone in the world who wants to live in poverty.Not everyone can build the platform they need to get rich. Certain environments are necessary to become rich, but not everyone has that environment.As we think it is very easy to get rich in cryptocurrency, but there are many people don't know anything about cryptocurrency.Rich - poor depends on the environment of a country, the role of government, political situation, education system, medical system, communication system and technology.You will notice that the technology dependent countries are very developed and the people of that country are also very rich.  Many have become rich through cryptocurrency and many have become poor through cryptocurrency.

[Davian144]

In fact, the principle of the rich get richer, the poor get poorer does not always happen. All depends on effort, hard work and prayer. If you want to be rich but lazy, one day your wealth will run out, if you are poor but diligent and work hard you will be successful. The point is
1. Don't stop seeking knowledge
2. Deepen the knowledge of socializing and communication
3. Work hard and don't give up easily
4. Results will not betray effort.

And one more thing actually depends on your mindset too, if your mind is still ancient but times are advanced, yes you will automatically be left behind.

From the points you said, actually only three points can be very useful because point four in my opinion is not very useful even though those words can also be a motivation for everyone. But that is part of the three points you mentioned so you don't need to add it to four points because the basic principle of the rich is to work and rotate their capital to get profits continuously.

So the rich getting richer is a very natural thing to happen because they also make efforts through businesses that they can pursue, while those who are still poor are those who are looking for capital to be able to open a business or business that can turn their money around to make a profit even though there are also those who are still poor because they are too lazy to work when they see opportunities to get any job are starting to narrow now.

[Nwada001]

Not everyone who was born poor has the resources to get rich. Some our born with good looks, some gets lucky and some just doesn't really have anything. It  is really easier to say that they should just get up work to get rich because we are not in their shoes but if you dig deeper into reality, they are just trying to survive. Getting rich requires taking risks and risks are expensive.

Not every one who is born rich has all it takes to maintain that wealth; they might end up poor. It all depends on their level of understanding and how they manage wealth. Most people just lack all it takes to make it in life, even when opportunities present themselves.

It's true we are not in anyone's shoes, but the fact that one should try harder to make a living first and leave the rest—luck doesn't just happen when one is just sitting at a place
The higher the level of education one acquires, the lower the poverty rate in that person's life may likely be reduced to a minimum. 

[Pejoh Asu]

I think the most important thing that makes us rich is the courage to take risks, many rich people are successful because they invest or do things that we think are extreme and very risky, but they stay focused on their goals and make them rich, of course they go through many failures, while the poor they think too much and are afraid of risks.

[Cantsay]

I have always wanted to ask this question is it that there is no opportunity or they do not want to get rich
Mate please more to this I am confused here.

In our current economic it's easier for the rich to get even more rich than they were before due to the fact that they have more opportunities than the poor because of their rich status.
Let's assume both a rich man and a poor man attended same occasion and during the occasion an opportunity shot out, if the rich man decide to contest for the post he'll get it because they already knows his wealthy status. And that's the reason why poor people don't wait for opportunities to come to them they create it themselves, when you see a poor man that's really serious about getting something he doesn't approach that thing the normal way he looks for how to first get advantage and increase the probability of him getting it. To me I think the mind of an hardworking and creative poor man is better than that of a rich man who perhaps inherited his wealth.

[Fakhrulenclix]

I think the most important thing that makes us rich is the courage to take risks, many rich people are successful because they invest or do things that we think are extreme and very risky, but they stay focused on their goals and make them rich, of course they go through many failures, while the poor they think too much and are afraid of risks.

If you take a risk with only recklessness, I think it will get worse. Many people who have succeeded in becoming rich when they are willing to try, take risks with knowledge or experience.
so for poor people who want to be rich they must have the desire and also knowledge.
if someone already has a strong desire I think there will be a lot to be learned.
no one is poor if everyone wants to try, it all depends on mindset, whether they still want to live as they were born or rise, all decisions are up to themselves.

[Razmirraz]

It's not that they don't have a desire to get out of the poverty line, everyone "certainly" wants to be rich but not everyone can get the opportunity to be rich. In this life, two sides are always related, day and night, men and women, including poor and rich. If everyone became rich, human life would be difficult, no one would want to work as laborers or farmers anymore.

The cycle of one's wealth often revolves, there are poor people who suddenly become rich and rich people who fall into poverty. Poor people are people who haven't had the opportunity to be rich, not don't want to be rich.

[DrBeer]

I don't think that the vast majority of poor people would refuse to be rich, or at least to become less poor. Certainly many people don't mind being considered rich financially, if they don't lack anything vital and are happy with the life they already have.

This question is a bit complex because:

-being rich does not mean being FIAT rich. Having good health, access to water, food, and having loved ones such as family and friends is already a form of real wealth.
-poor people by definition do not have the means to invest (real estate, stocks, cryptos etc..). And how to become rich without investment?

Each people, each culture has a different and subjective notion of wealth. Each people and each culture has a different consideration of the threshold at which they qualify as poor / rich. The ways to get out of poverty are not the same depending on where you live, there are places where your economic environment allows it, and others where it is more complex.

Achieving wealth is a difficult path, and there are no guarantees that you will achieve your goals. Therefore, a very small number of people start this path, which requires knowledge, hard work, ingenuity, high endurance, the ability to limit oneself and not look for excuses. Not many people are ready for this.
But "become rich" - everyone wants. That is, yesterday I was a poor man, went to bed, woke up - and pockets full of money And the funny thing is that 99% of yesterday's poor people, having become rich in the morning, will not run to study, but will run for an iPhone and a gold watch. And this suggests that the problem is not in the environment, regime, economy - but in the mentality of a person. Poverty, in most cases - it is genetic or mental in nature

[Wong Gendheng]

This life is indeed unique, because there are many things that will never be finished or ended, such as poverty problems, as long as there is still life, poverty will continue to occur, all theories for rich will never succeed in eliminating poverty, this is because poverty is the part of this life.

[BRINIRHA]

This life is indeed unique, because there are many things that will never be finished or ended, such as poverty problems, as long as there is still life, poverty will continue to occur, all theories for rich will never succeed in eliminating poverty, this is because poverty is the part of this life.

You are right. everyone who wants a change in his life learns many ways of life in order to become a rich man. some even attend seminars and such. but still not everything works. everyone's method for achieving success may be the same. but in reality the success rate is always different. many factors led to all this. but the point is that poor and rich will always be there because both of them actually need each other. like a boss who needs subordinates.

[Semar Mesem]

Rich and poor is the secret of life, there is no guarantee if someone does the same thing as a successful person and the results will also be successful, even in families of course there are rich and poor even though they come from rich families, and in my opinion the presence of rich and poor is being able to take advantage of each other so that this life can go according to the plan of the rich or the poor.

[Bushdark]

I have always wanted to ask this question is it that there is no opportunity or they do not want to get rich
Mate please more to this I am confused here.

This your question isnveey funny and I just don't know how to explain this to you. First if all, I need to ask you this question " Are you rich?" People that are poor do not wish to be in such condition, it is circumstances that made them to be poor. If you are still confused why people get poor them I will want you to ask people around you why some persons are poor and others are rich. To be poor is not a sin but can be as a reflection of lazy or not able to meet up with opportunity. Some persons are born poor so they need to work hard to become rich.