Some say that this point of view has been reinforced by the leadership of South Africa, which had for long based its public health policies on a conviction that AIDS can be cured without anti-retroviral therapy. But there is actually more than that to it.
Poor people tend to blame every misfortune that befalls them, on their poverty. They insist that it is only because they are poor that they have to face disappointment or suffering, and that the rich never have to endure such things.
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