I mean. That’s really good in theory, but sometimes things are genuinely beyond our control, and sometimes there just genuinely are limitations stopping people from doing things that cannot be overcome with a “winners mindset”.
Like.
Someone with bipolar. For three months they might be able to work, no problems. And then mania sets in. The chemicals in their brain start going fucky, and they are literally unable to behave normally. They argue with their boss a bunch, miss days of work because of insomnia keeping them awake for 3 days (would YOU want a workmate operating heavy machinery if they were that tired?) and eventually they get fired.
They had the winner mentality to try and go to work, and they didn’t want to argue with their boss. But the chemicals in their brain made them. You can’t change-of-attitude yourself out of your own brain basically drugging you.
Or maybe it’s a single mother of 3, who had to get a divorce because her hubby was beating her and the kids. That woman is going to be flat out like a lizard drinking, all day, every day that they aren’t at school. She isn’t going to have the time to work extra hours, or a more demanding job, or university level education.
We can’t know what’s going on in everyone’s lives. We, like everyone else, are only human. So it’s best to try and give what help we can to everyone, and to spread government financial benefits to as many average blokes and ladies as we can. We’re in the middle of a cost of living crisis, so especially now we shouldn’t expect the poor to be shouldering ALL of the financial burden themselves. Liberal and the media are being downright unaustralian, trying to convince everyone that only the rich should benefit.
