All this talk about personal responsibility is a little much. There really aren't that many people who just sit around all day and say "let someone else take care of me". For the most part, many poor people try their best and work hard. They may not be as smart or conniving as the top 1% or top 10%, and that is why they have problems.
The lucky people who have done well in life just don't realize how lucky they are, and how much they owe to governments that run a stable society and provide all these poor lemmings for rich business to feed off of.
Lets put it like this. Separate out the top 10% of earners and give them their own country. What will happen? There will be nobody to do the shit jobs! Heck, maybe even give them the top 20% of earners so that you include well paid public servants like police and firefighters and road construction guys, etc.
We could go even further and take every nice suburb in every city of every state, anyone who owns a nice house, and lets put them all together. All the so called hard working people who supposedly have lots of personal responsibility and have everything they have from hard work. What will happen? They would very quickly lose their quality of life.
Nice communities rely on poor people travelling long distances to work in shops that the well off people like to shop at.
Companies like Walmart rely on government subsidies for their poor employees so they get to pay them less.
Most financial institutions, be it big banks or shit money lending outfits rely on gouging poor people who don't have the knowledge or ability to get either cheap credit, or free services by having big accounts with said institutions.
Technology companies wouldn't be who they are without scores of poor people buying up cell phones and cell phone plans.
Google and Facebook make what they do via advertising because billions of people are seeing ads, the poor people, those same people with supposedly little personal responsibility. Their simple existence is what allows rich people to have what they have. Businesses make lots of money from poor people, and government spending is based on populations of poor people, and this money spent is money earned by both corporations and well off public servants.
The rest of the county, the 80% or 70% who is poor will do just fine if given their own country. They will support each other, and although they may not have fancy cars, fancy houses, fancy things, they will work hard in life, plow their fields, raise their livestock, and perhaps die at an early age without fancy healthcare, but at least they won't have been taken advantage of by the rich fuckers who lie to them and tell them they should be grateful for what little they have and not even include them in the healthcare system when they get sick, even though they continue to enrich the lives of rich people every day both directly and indirectly.
