Poverty is a cultural defect

Empower the impoverished, repair the culture

Americans, at least the ones who are not multi-millionaires or above that stratum, face many real-world challenges in 2024. Among them is a corrupt political system that has resulted in a crisis of nearly every facet of American existence. Rampant homelessness. Out of control drug abuse and addiction. A staggeringly irresponsible national debt that has resulted from expenditures that do little to nothing to help Americans who struggle, and which are grossly and obviously skewed towards enriching the already wealthy and their many corporations.

The chart below shows exactly how evil the current systems of power are.

Look at the bottom 50%, then look at the top .1%. There is no way to say that a society is honorable with this wealth distribution reality. Wealth is power, and power is cruelty. The people at the top do not have any concern whatsoever for the masses below them on the wealth/power scale. If they did, that bottom 50% of the resources would be much higher.

Now notice that the le…