(02-12-2016, 01:50 AM)Alexandoy Wrote: This question is pregnant with more questions. But my take on why there are rich and poor people is partly because of them, the people themselves. Take this for an example, me and my friend. While I was in school, my friend was in the streets enjoying life away from the drudgery of the class lecture. When I entered college, my friend had officially quit schooling since he couldn’t cope with the high school system of education. When I got a job in the office, my friend was working as a handy man, working for anything just to earn. And I got one child while he has 4.
Now, where is the equality there when it comes to financial standing? Is it my fault that I am rich (by normal standards) and he is poor? I had invested my time in education and serious work while he invested in social affairs like drinking every night and gambling (card games, cockfighting, horse racing, etc) and gallivanting. And being a friend, is it my responsibility to help him in times of need? Oh well, that’s too hard to answer.
You are right. The paths we choose decide our future. There were two brothers whose father was a drunkard. One of them also followed his father but his brother became a business magnet through his hard work. When somebody asked the former why he is a drunkard, he said that there was nothing unusual in that. He just decided to follow his father. But the later one already made up his mind that he will never become a drunkard like his father. That makes the difference I guess.
But at the same time we cannot ignore the fact that bribery plays its own part in making the rich richer and the poor poorer, no matter how hard you work.
