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In reply to the discussion: Re:Chelsea Clinton: Did peoples' spin-detectors suddenly short out? [View all]cheapdate
(3,811 posts)I've met poor people whose values were focused on values such as hard work, integrity, charity, compassion, etc.
We weren't rich and neither was I raised in abject poverty. I went to public schools in Mobile, Alabama. My mother was a social worker for the state, and my father was a sometimes business owner, sometimes gambler, sometimes construction worker.
I've known "hippies" who rejected money on considered grounds. I've known house cleaners and custodians who kept their poor homes spotlessly clean, volunteered with their church, and raised their families with good values. I've known bums and drunks who simply didn't care about money at all, except in the most mundane and practical sense.
Everyone has to have money in this world. That's an inescapable fact. But being poor doesn't dictate how a person assigns value to money in a deeper sense of how they look at the meaning of life.
Your experience is obviously different.