Being Poor Is Expensive!

Not all of us got dealt with an easy hand in life. Some are given the 'poverty card' to play with. In a world where it is believed that money talks, you're automatically excluded in a lot of things. This can be viewed in two ways, you can either whinge and complain about it or you can do something about it and face it head on.

Contrary to popular belief, being poor is very expensive. Poor people always find themselves with limited choices, they easily fall prey to scammers and most of the time, they're socially excluded.

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Easy Prey To Scammers

Who easily falls prey to 'get rich quick schemes', the rich or the poor? When you find yourself in a bad financial situation, you tend to jump on any offer that's given to you thinking it's the once in a lifetime opportunity.

Sadly, this are just schemes and they never deliver on what is promised. Thinking that with a quick investment, they can suddenly turn the table of their financial situation, poor people quickly make the move without any due diligence. There eyes are untrained to see that nothing comes easy especially when it comes to getting rich.

However, online scammers continue to employ this tactic and poor people keep falling for it, till to this day!

Socially Excluded

Networking and connections, opportunities that'll give you a 'big break' in life are rarely available to poor people. These are opportunities that people dream and fantasize about every night, the ones that will forever change their life for the better.

This hand outs are mainly given by well connected people on the top. It's not that they won't give it to poor people but poor people are missing during this gatherings. Have you ever been to those socially awkward gatherings between the rich and the poor?

Poor people don't feel they belong there so they avoid and stay away from those situations as much as possible. Hiding behind the façade of not being worthy to be there. This excludes them from the opportunities they would have had if they weren't poor.

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Limited Choices

When a poor person goes to buy something, not having enough will always limit their choices. For example, when buying a vehicle, they'll settle for the one that's barely able to get the job done rather than the one they really like. When buying a house, certain neighborhoods are beyond reach for them simply because it's unaffordable to purchase a house there.

The same thing goes for health and education. Their choices are limited when it comes to the health care and education they receive. In most cases, they just settle for what's available to them even if it's not up to the best standard.

In Conclusion

If you culminate all of this, you come to the conclusion that although getting rich is not easy, it's still a better option that being poor especially in the long term. Being poor can be very costly.

Take the example of buying cheap things, they spoil or break early and you have to buy again. Where as, if you bought a good quality one, it will last long. Banks are more friendly and favour rich people than poor people. Poor people rarely have time for investing.

As Dutch American artist, Willem de Kooning said, “The trouble with being poor, is that it takes up all your time.”