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The best way to address poor people is by giving them ideas not by giving them money
Many years back, there was a man called Bob who used to live in a small town called Argyle located in Texas with his wife and kids. They are extremely poor and sell vegetables in the neighborhood on foot. One day, Bob was selling vegetables in one of the neighborhoods and noticed a beautiful house with a nice garden, and there was a man sitting in the front porch and started to stare at him, and a woman came out from the house to buy vegetables. Bob inquires about the man sitting in the garden, and the woman replies he is her husband.
The next day again Bob came back to sell the vegetables in the same neighborhood, and the man sitting in the garden says, “Hello, my name is Bond, and we are new to the neighborhood. What’s your name?”And the grocer replies “Hello, James, my name is Bob.” Bond says.”I want to talk to you if you have some time.” The grocer says he doesn’t have time, and he needs to sell the vegetables by the end of the day and says he will come early the next day to talk. The next day Bond asked the grocer why you were in a hurry and why you needed to sell the vegetable at the end of the day. Bob says he borrows ten dollars every day from a local lender and buys vegetables with local farmers and sells them in the neighborhood and makes around fifteen dollars a day and returns twelve…
