onigen:

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That's a huge assumption that poor people will never be able to extricate themselves from being poor and make something of themselves. I'm not sure what your background is but I grew up lower middle class in a third world country. I saw first hand the kind of poverty the above image represents. I've been to those neighborhoods. And they are people just like any other person. They love music, love to dance. They are creative and will build a vehicle from scavenged parts. Had they been given the same access to education as others, they would surely have been able to escape poverty. Not to say they would have been billionaires, but still being out of poverty would have been considered a success. Here are actual rags to riches examples:

  • Madam C. J. Walker: orphaned domestic servant to first female self-made millionaire in America.
  • Andrew Carnegie: born in a one room cottage in Scotland to becoming the richest American in 1901.  He was an industrialist and a philanthropist who gave away about $350 million to charity in the last 18 years of his life (an equivalent to $10.9 billion in 2024).
  • Oprah Winfrey: born into poverty in rural Mississippi to a single teenage mother to become one of the richest African-American of the 20th century. 
 Italophilia:
That's a huge assumption that poor people will never be able to extricate themselves from being poor and make something of themselves. I'm not sure what your background is but I grew up lower middle class in a third world country. I saw first hand the kind of poverty the above image represents. I've been to those neighborhoods. And they are people just like any other person. They love music, love to dance. They are creative and will build a vehicle from scavenged parts. Had they been given the same access to education as others, they would surely have been able to escape poverty. Not to say they would have been billionaires, but still being out of poverty would have been considered a success. Here are actual rags to riches examples:

The age and grandeur of ancient European churches have nothing to do with modern wealth disparities. These structures are testaments to centuries of communal effort, faith, and cultural heritage.

The oldest churches in Europe date back nearly 2000 years.

1) Many great European churches were constructed during the Middle Ages, long before the concept of billionaires existed. For example:

Cathedral of Saint Domnius in Croatia (295-305 AD)

Rotunda of Saint George in Bulgaria (4th century)

Cathedral of Trier in Germany (340 AD)

These churches represent the collective efforts and aspirations of countless generations, not the whims of modern billionaires. They are invaluable historical and cultural landmarks that belong to all of humanity, regardless of wealth or social status.

 onigen:
The age and grandeur of ancient European churches have nothing to do with modern wealth disparities. These structures are testaments to centuries of communal effort, faith, and cultural heritage.

Fair enough. My gripe is that there was no need to say that people who lived in poverty cannot benefit or enrich the culture of a people who built those churches.

 onigen:
These churches represent the collective efforts and aspirations of countless generations, not the whims of modern billionaires. They are invaluable historical and cultural landmarks that belong to all of humanity, regardless of wealth or social status.

If this is the case, then I wish you had not included anything about poverty, implying poor people cannot appreciate or add to society's culture.

 Italophilia:

Fair enough. My gripe is that there was no need to say that people who lived in poverty cannot benefit or enrich the culture of a people who built those churches.

If this is the case, then I wish you had not included anything about poverty, implying poor people cannot appreciate or add to society's culture.

The original post wasn't about poverty.

That is just the way you took it.

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