03/26/20: Gans, The uses of poverty

When we look at poverty many people get triggered by the though of people being poor and the poverty standpoint. Many people get frustrated by the though that when you say someone is poor majority of society assumes that it is there fault that they are poor that they are lazy so they are there due to their individual choices. The poverty is what drives majority of our economy the ones who have to work non stop. During this whole Coronavirus I can see that , grocery workers that get paid minimum wage are still out working with a little pay raise or none at all and they are at risk for this virus. When we think of someone poor it is more motivating for me someone who totally built themselves I would be more impressed rather than someone who was spoon fed their whole life and really do not know what it is to struggle. The in class demonstration helped me though realize that my judgments are not always right. When we did the step up or step back demonstration many people were way ahead of me but with some questions they stepped back that I assumed if they were that far ahead that they wouldn’t have to step back for anything but I was incorrect. Although many people think that poor really do not have anything to do with society or that they don’t work that hard they need to sit back and realize that majority of our daily lives we come into someone who is considered “In poverty, or poor” but from the outside you can not tell. A social class is not what defines a person but too many people In society do not realize that.