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You can do everything right, but if you land a chronic disease that costs $10, 000 out of pocket every year for the next 30 years to treat, you're gonna be broke.I wouldn't consider "need" the right word. It's human nature to get as much as we can for our labors.
Can you explain to us how wealth is a zero sum game? It isn't.
Luck and other circumstantial variables pay a role, but in general, people who are wealthy, earn it by work ethics. Generally, people who are at the lower rungs of the wealth ladder, are irresponsible in ways that are important.
Look at the achievers vs. the slackers from school, and consider what they have become when you see them at various high school reunions.
Blaming the rich for the problems of the poor is nothing but a lame excuse.
One could point to student loans as well. If you signed on the bottom line at 17 and took on $100,000 in debt to land a good job, you're paying about $10,000 per year ($6000 in interest) for the next 20 years to pay it off.