I am not poor by any means SINCE a year when I got a job. But even the day before I started working, I was a student and was very very poor and I knew that I would one day not be poor and hence life had some positivity to look at. But that doesn't mean it wasn't sad. I cannot wrap around the fact that some people have no other choice than to stay poor their whole life.
Back to an example that I experienced the last 2 days on why I am reflecting on this now:
Looks like I had some bills to pay and didn't do as while I was a student. I honestly ignored it back then because I genuinely didn't have money and then just forgot about it. It's now a payable money. But 2 days ago when I tried to pay with my card at the supermarket (about 6 Euro), my card didn't work. I was absolutely informed about why or when that would happen and I thought my card stopped working. But looks like my entire bank account got frozen. Because of that another 5 bills that would be automatically booked from my account got bounced and now I have to pay 3.5 Euro fine for each of those bills. So basically I am made to pay more fine for other bills because I didn't pay one bill. Like I said I genuinely forgot about it and not because I didn't have money and hence it wasn't a big deal and I got it resolved. But it's definitely possible that I just didn't have the money. How is this the right way to deal with this? Now they want more money from someone who didn't have money? I am sure most people who didn't pay a bill did so because they didn't have money and not because they forgot. Just an overall stupid way to deal with this by punishing someone more for being poor.