[truenamenofame]

You could try giving them money. I'm poor and after the reality of covid hit and I was out of a job, I confided in my best friend to give me a loan of $5000 in order to give me some sense of security, so that I could snap myself out of the curse of poverty-induced short term thinking. The kind of thinking that pushes someone into bad dead-end jobs instead of going back to school or learning a trade to gain superior skills because paying rent in the short term is more important, eat cheap nutritonally-void junk food to save a buck, and to skip the health insurance and pray for good luck that they may not get sick or have a freak accident everyday of their living, breathing lives. I have not actually used a single dollar of my friend's money. My mind was clear enough to figure out how to apply for unemployment insurance. Then the inflow of unemployment insurance only gave me compound interest on that sense of security that could only be afforded by a good enough lump sum of money in my savings account. At some point I decided I don't need the unemployment insurance anymore because I didn't want to just find some random minimum wage job to pay the bills (which was no longer a fear due to the money I had in my savings). So I got off of it, and then started making key efforts everyday to put myself into community college. So that's the short/long story of how I was able to find myself back in school in my late 20s after a long 7 years of struggle. Could've saved a lot of time if someone gave me that loan 7 years ago, but hey, better late than never.