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I am still a little heated from this topic. Our society has a history of placing blame on poor people for their situations. I think everyone needs to put themselves in other people's shoes before making ignorant statements about people. I work with extremely vulnerable clients: homeless, mentally ill, substance abusers. For the most part people blame the clients for their conditions but I can't believe anyone truly would want to be poor, homeless, mentally ill or a substance abuser. And by all means, I don't see how these conditions are their faults in the majority of the cases. I respect and admire my clients for what they have SURVIVED in their fragile lives. It makes me appreciate my comfy lifestyle that I live and I am very thankful that I have had a supportive family and resources to help me get to where I am today. Many people don't have these things and it is not their fault. It is interesting because I also observe many people of affluence to be "more screwed up" and "heartless" then many of the poorest "craziest" clients and "druggies" I have dealt with in my past 6 years in the field.
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