[A.K.]

I grew up ‘poor.’ I now can afford to pay my bills on time. I seem to be in a middle-class enviroment. I go away on weekends. I buy as many groceries as I want. I don’t fret about getting ill. I eat out whenever I feel like it. I have a car and take it for granted. If it needs fixing, the prospect of living without a car because I can’t afford to get it fixed does not cross my mind. I buy clothes and trinkets as fashions change, not as I need them. Of course money shelters people. That’s why some rich folks feel they have to climb mountains and travel, etc., to ‘experience’ life or ‘find themselves.’ Rich people are real and have more access to the world’s resources, no question about that. And everybody in the world has to live through the trials of life (death, emotional struggle, etc.) Being poor is more of an experience. It builds your character and takes away your wide-eyed innocence by teaching you the realities of life. When you’re rich, you tend to forget, and tend to feel fed and happy. If you’re rich, you may worry about putting on a few pounds and how you should go to the gym, instead of how you’ll manage to pay rent and look after your kids without losing your place and your children’s hope for a future. If you’re rich, you may worry about losing your high-paying job and settling for a lower-class job (not that working for minumum wage would cross your mind). When you work on minimum wage, you have less to lose, but it means the bare minimum that you survive on will be taken away and there may be no other options. Some rich people find it acceptable that the media goes crazy at the terrible tragedy of a rich kid being lost but never focuses on the continuing young deaths of teenage youths affected by gang violence. Some rich folks think it’s the kid’s own fault, as though it’s all a simple lifestyle choice. As though resources and hope have nothing to do with the psychology of a young human.

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Heh heh. How did a non-jew get hold of the talmud anyway?

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