I watched a video that was shown on open TV, about the growing number of homeless people here in the United States, and this caught my attention. How is it that America, which is so rich at the same time, manages to generate more chaos for low-income families than the rest of the other developed countries and even many developing countries.
According to a HUD survey, in 2022, there were approximately 600,000 people in this situation.
In California alone, it is estimated that there are 172,000 people, practically 30% of all homeless people in the United States and the worst thing is that the GDP of the State of California is around 3.7 trillion dollars.
Our GDP is the highest in the world, now as I write this article, the figures are around 25 trillion dollars.
What makes these people stay this way? This is what I ask myself and I can’t get precise answers. The government’s fault? Perhaps. But the government is doing nothing to remedy this.
Well, many, and I can say this because I’ve heard a lot of this, say that the greatest responsibility lies with governments.
I believe it is not entirely untrue. It turns out that for many Americans, the lifestyle must be built under a shell of appearance, which makes everyday life too expensive for momentary gains. And Americans don’t even collaborate with themselves, let alone with others.
Living very close to the limit of their salaries, a large part of the population lives like this, generates a very high degree of risk when we look to the future. This proximity to the monthly salary, the maximum disbursement, does not allow the person to save a few bucks for when any take place circumstance or government mismanagement arises and they can thus protect themselves.
So you admitted here that the government is the biggest culprit and not the least culprit? No, the biggest culprit, no matter how coldly you may proclaim what I expose in this matter, is the individual himself.
I will explain why, in an unconventional way, but I believe it will be satisfactory for you to come up with a better conclusion by adding this position that I developed.
Think of a power generation hydroelectric plant.
But what does this have to do with the whole subject? Just think.
Think of the lake that forms above the floodgates. The floodgates regulate water output by increasing or decreasing volume according to the need for energy generation. All this behavior of regulating the water flow needs to be analyzed in detail so that everything stays within the proposed energy supply and the lake’s water level.
I made a very simple summary of the administrative behavior of a hydroelectric plant and now we are going to compare ourselves with one in our finances. When we don’t have a lake formed above the floodgates and we need more volume to meet demand at a delicate time, then we can’t meet it and we collapse.
These people who find themselves homeless, in part, were not managing their floodgates.
Nowadays, due to the efforts of our parents and grandparents, we find ourselves in a world with few ups and downs and because of this, many have not learned about the pressures that survival puts on us. Managing pressures and the financial world is a difficult task for many of us. This is not actually taught in schools. In the current social environment, we make enormous effort to just appear to be and not actually be. We deconstruct ourselves from the necessary care due to the facilities we see in our daily lives.
We find ourselves psychologically degraded compared to our ancestors and this makes us easy prey to the adversities of the world, which has never changed. What generally changes is our concept, which tends to become fashionable, but dressing, eating, and having a roof over our heads as a means of security remains the same as it always has been.
And when talking about the government, it is not precisely the government that provides help to these people, but rather us. Through our contributions, government bodies do something.
These people who are out in the open, many of them didn’t do their homework, didn’t carefully manage their floodgates and to top it all off, many of them became addicted to drugs in an attempt to reduce the pressure that they themselves avoided working when they were healthy. , psychologically and financially.
I am not in favor of governments now offering monetary aid, and mainly its impact on these people is not visible, because they were negligent of themselves.
Mainly because this help comes precisely from those who commit a lot to keeping their finances up to date, potentially even penalizing them with unfair tax increases.
I previously mentioned the State of California as this is a classic example of what can happen. Where this penalty is making more prepared people, due to the care with their resources, pay a high price for nothing more to be offered in return.
There is no compensation, and so the exodus is imminent.
But in turn, the field is more favorable to displacement for those who find considerable volume under its floodgates.
Managing your assets well will always make a difference. You will always have an ace up your sleeve that you can take advantage of at a suitable moment.
Regardless, education will always help you through adversity. The knowledge that is provided through education will protect you to the maximum. But you need to do your part, you need to admit that you don’t know everything. When we are convinced that we are never wrong, or that we don’t make mistakes, we have no way of improving ourselves, because if we are certain of everything, how are we going to improve ourselves?
I believe we have the answers to what happens if we lower our fists, if we look at what was on TV.
I end this article convinced that I made you, reader, think about your future, that everything we do or don’t do has a price. Taking a path based on today may not be a good idea.
And you? What price do you agree to pay?