Money is not everything. Power is not everything. But being stuck in a mindset that your weakness directly makes you strong becomes everything when it’s the only thing that defines you. Thinking poor, or the poor mindset, is a delusion that a modern Western poverty lifestyle imbues one with pragmatism and real-world “street smart” knowledge that the rich, the successful, the people with power that one spites, don’t hold.
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Thinking poor does not require economic poverty, only poverty of the brain, though being raised through poverty greatly increases the chances of having a poor mindset. Poverty eats away at a person in every way, but the greatest of men deal through hardship by getting better, overcoming their weaknesses, and either rising above poverty or eliminating it as a factor in their lives entirely. These great men do not think poor, but took away something from it. It’s a tale as classic as written works of fiction date back. Even further, really, to the great military commanders and political leaders of the ancient world. Great men rising from slavery, from nothing, from being abandoned in a river to barely surviving a crippling disability. All drew from a source of strength, their knowledge and understanding of what the darker side of human randomness of fate throws at the world.
Now flash forward to a fucking degenerate who eats microwaveable food every night in front of their phone streaming the latest dogshit popular teevee show. A common scene in 2020. Many know of a person who’s going to start eating healthy, going to start working out, a person who knows of their weakness but fails to change. This is not thinking poor.
Thinking poor is the person that justifies trash. To justify trash is to accept what is in front of you and to never make any improvement or change to your current situation.
Thinking poor is thinking Hershey’s is the best chocolate in the world because it’s the only one you’ve ever eaten. “Oh, you like chocolate? What’s your favorite, Reese’s, Twix, Kit-Kat?” This is a conversation that I’ve had many times, especially during my acclaimed studies at Poor School. The issue that lies in this line of conversation is no consideration is ever given that there could be something better. If one were to claim there was better chocolate in almost any quality chocolate shop around the world, one would be greeted by a brick wall of poverty. Responses may vary from, “That’s weird,” “That’s expensive,” “I don’t like that flavor” (particularly offensive because Hershey’s has no flavor, only a wax consistency), or “Why would I need that,” but at its core is an unshakable belief that whatever they’ve been exposed to since birth in the form of advertising and gas station convenience is the highest point of consumerist actualization they can reach.
Pharmacies and gas stations are where much of this poor way of thought seems to fester. Pharmacies in the United States have increasingly become indistinguishable from grocery stores from only a lack of produce and deli/bakery sections. The idea that anything in a pharmacy beyond the most basic of medical and household essentials has any semblance of quality is a delusion. Gas stations abstracted the concept of convenient packaged food into mini-marts devoted solely to garbage. Heavily-processed foods filled with inhuman chemicals became the norm due to corporations realizing that the vast majority of people will accept increasingly lower standards if that is all they are provided with. Yes, there is a market for the more upscale, but this attracts schzios, another problem entirely. It’s also irrelevant if someone bought a “healthy choice” when most profits come from the masses, who are consuming trash.
When the only razors someone is provided is Gillette, then those are the only razors that person can comprehend. The modern Plato’s allegory of poverty. What more can there be? Any other option must not be good since it’s not in front of me at all times or bought by everyone.
When you take supplements because you read or heard somewhere that they’ll make you better. But they’re called supplements. Just eat actual food that isn’t trash. You know what that is.
When you have no taste but have money, whatever costs more must be better. This is why Gucci can sell ugly t-shirts for hundreds of dollars. They’re enabling the retarded. The poverty disabled. Buying expensive does not make your soul rich. It reveals a great misunderstanding of money, that in and of itself it is to be admired and sought out. Never is it considered how money can be productively used to better oneself or others. A blind appreciation formed and huffed like drug addicts from the fumes of a capitalist society.
Thinking poor goes beyond mere consumption of trash in all forms. It is, after all, a way of thinking. For the modern man, exposure to media is the greatest source of off-hours relaxation time, and the greatest influence on the public. One can say this is not entirely negative as this spreads ideas, but this argument implies survival of the fittest in an idealistic notion. That is, the best survives. Which we know not to be true from mere observance. Survival does not equate to an objective good, neither does evolution. Media shapes a man. Parents let their children be raised by YouTube. Digital cuckoldry. If you can witness this and not feel any sense of dread then you’re lost and I truly hope you find some connection to reality to make you feel something human and real and not artificial again.
It is through media that people form an idea of how the world works. I can walk outside of my tower of poor, bestowed onto me by my colleagues from Poor School, and experience reality. I know how the world works because I’m in it. But the poor at soul think the world works as it is depicted in media because they are exposed and directed to nothing else. The time spent sleeping or working is all to support the habit of escapism found in media. Escapism can be justified by gaining some form of thought from the consumption of media, but how many people truly do this? How many people reflect?
Does Vegas attract rich people? Yes, some. But what does it also attract? Degenerates. People who dedicate all their time to wasting time and losing money, money being a number representation of their value as an entity. Literally giving their soul away. Yet, despite this sight, one that can be seen for free by casually walking into any casino, the idea of casinos being anything but for the prestigious persists. Why does this image persist, even in the fact of casinos making more from degenerates than from the rich?
This is a tangent, but needs to be discussed in relation to thinking poor.
Schzios are drawn to any source of perceived authority, or what they think should always be right. Diverse sources of this include religion, government, political officials, legal systems or laws in general, medical services, police, news, supermarkets, corporations, environment, sexuality, Wall Street, fast food, public parks, and casinos. If you’ve ever watched a public freakout by an insane person, it almost always relates back to this.
Schzio thinking correlates to thinking poor. Despite any evidence presented, these people will default back to their default considerations of the world in its most simplistic nature. Either, “The government is right. The government MUST be right,” or, “This is WRONG. But the government is supposed to be RIGHT. I will now take down the government by pissing myself.” It sounds childish, toddlerish even, but it is what these people think.
Poorisms. Whenever you witness an idea so stupid that the person must be poor, this is a poorism. When you see someone wear a watch 24/7 and accumulate dead skin and a tan line because they want to know the time at all time. When someone goes to a Denny’s instead of an actual diner that’s closer, cheaper, faster, and tastes better.
When did fast food become just food to the poor thinkers? I think people have justified their consumption of trash because of convenience and “treat” or “snack” culture. This is my treat, this is my snack, it’s OK. Except I eat it multiple times a day and don’t do any work to justify trash. Also, you can buy an apple for cheaper and faster and it won’t make you feel like shit before, during, and after eating it. Convenience? Most poor people are not working 28 hours a day to survive, they have time. Basic cooking takes almost no skill. But people would rather just eat ingredients or pre-packaged foods out of “convenience.” This is a fallacy of thinking short-term convenience outweighs long-term health. You are killing yourself slowly by eating trash.
Oh, but “rich people are degenerates as well.” Well, yeah, but just because Warren Buffet eats McDonald's doesn’t mean you're justified in doing so. Oh, “I don't give a fuck what people think.” So I'll just kill myself, then. Epic.
I can hear the poor hordes below my Mega Bloks tower threatening soy threats if I don’t get to the point. Everything, all of this, comes from a spread in fiction of the underdog. The idea that someone goes from failure to achiever, from poor to rich. These fictional characters use their pragmaticism learned from a lifetime of hardship to spite the rich and become successful on their own terms. But, please tell me when these characters overcome the odds through eating McDonald’s and watching Rick and Morty? Never. And they never will. Because thinking poor is a cancer on the mind, and is a burden we all choose to bear and accept for as long as you do nothing to combat it.