Helping the poor is VERY HARD WORK.

The rich do not understand the mentality of the poor.
nor do the poor understand the mentality of the rich.

Capitalism is great, until people start knocking out the bottom rungs of the ladder to protect their current position.

Currently millennials will never move into home ownership like the baby-boomer generation did. The prices are great than any wealth the millenial will see in their lifetime.

Also, the previous generations have claimed every square foot of land. You can't just go out and start farming on a vacant piece of land. The BLM owns it all. Things were fine when there was room to grow; to get a foot hold. But now any upward movement is constrained by regulations.

To help the poor, you not only need to give them land, you also have to give them skills to work that land. Then you need to retrain their mind to see possibilities.

The difference between a poor farmer and a middle class farmer? One weeds their garden. Guaranteed to increase yields by 25%. So, why don't the poor do so?

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Also, Venezuela's people did deserve what they got. They kept pounding the drum of socialism, never seeing the destruction that was heading their way.

Just like americans are deserving what is coming their way.

But, it is a whole other topic to explore how to change the situation that years of corruption have wrought.