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Is a phone a necessity? A computer? Cable? Does living in a tiny apartment kill you? Seriously... You live within your means by realizing that things like cable, a computer and a smart phone are luxuries not necessities. The library has computers you can use for free, books to read and movies to borrow. You can get a few channels on a TV without paying for cable. A land line phone or basic cell phone can be had for cheap.
How about living with roommates to share the rent on the apartment? I have a sister who lives in California who cannot afford a house by herself so she, her husband and their two kids lived in a house they shared with another family (her kids are now grown and moved out so it's just the two couples now). Or do what my niece did. She bought a duplex in Detroit and charges enough rent on the second unit to pay the mortgage payment. Granted she makes more than minimum wage but she found a way to have a free place to live. Someone else makes the payment for her.
If you are looking for opportunities to increase your income, a phone (a cheap prepaid phone will suffice), a computer (I got mine by volunteering at an electronics recycler), and internet access can be very useful - since I use my computer to make money, I consider my computer and internet access to be necessities for me.
And obviously this can be fixed very simply by redistributing the wealth from rich to poor by raising taxes on the wealthiest tax brackets or adding a new highest tax bracket and redistributing it to like poorer people.
By definition, this will equalize the distribution of wealth in USA
Also because of inflation over the last few decades and state taxes, the poor pay too much taxes and the rich are paying highest tax bracket which in today's dollars, is no longer a high tax bracket ....and stuff
This is why the wealth inequality. Rich are paying too little in taxes and poor are paying too much
Otherwise wealth would be more fair like 50% of the wealth is in more like 50% of Americans....that's the ideal...each person being truly truly equal
What have you done that you deserve to take money from someone else?
By and large, wealthy people get that way by repeatedly making the decision to defer gratification, even from a young age. People who can't resist instant gratification, who aren't willing to sacrifice their comfort now for more comfort later in life, will always end up less than wealthy.
They also often have financial advantages not available to all e.g. living with parents allows them to save up a down payment faster, or their parents paid for college.
Burger flippers don't become wealthy even when they defer gratification; there simply isn't enough income available to build.
Small business don't have the resources to buy politicians, tilt campaigns, and hire armies of lawyers, lobbyists and PR mouthpieces. Big business does have the resources to buy politicians.
Small business owners often contribute to political campaigns...in modest amounts that would surprise most people. A $250 or $500 donation doesn't buy any politician. Small business is more interested in making money than in buying politicians.
In the 50's was the beginning of decades of economic growth and prosperity, where we saw families with only one car, soon able to afford two. Television sets replaced the radio for evening entertainment when people used to listen to shows like "Fibber McGee and Molly" and "The Great Gildersleeve." Also "Dinner Winner." Now they had a picture to go with sound.
Home ownership also rose, as family incomes began to increase.
Few people did not experience an improvement in their standard of living, from washing machines to gas and electric clothes dryers, dishwashers, and other modern appliances.
To claim that this period saw the poor get poorer while the "rich got richer" is a flat out lie, and is nothing but the propaganda peddled by the anit-capitalist Left.
It wasn't until the 1980s that the poor got poorer while the rich got richer.
Come now religion isn't the cause. Ignorance is the cause. How many of those inner-city unwed moms are bible banging zealots? How many inner city schools have a religious element that has any influence? Ill say a streetwise kid is years advanced over a country kid the same age when it comes to sex.
Now if you want to go to the sticks of WV or some other Down south state I might agree if you are talking the sticks. But lets face it the bottom line is ignorance and stupidity.
Now you are generalizing a stereotype.
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