“Good Afternoon everyone, I am Arthur Birling, I am the owner of Birling and Co, which is a factory business company that employs girls to work on sewing machines. I was the Lord Mayor of Brumley two years ago. And I am the husband of Sybil Birling and the father of Eric and Sheila Birling. I speak as a hard-headed businessman who takes his own risks.
And I think that poor people should take their own risks as well without any help from the middle and higher class. They should be able to take care of themselves, even though they have a really low income. It is not the wealthy people's responsibility to take care of those who are less fortunate because it is not our job. The poor often work in factories where it is
dangerous because of the bad conditions, to an extent where it could kill them. As a safer choice, the poor could work as maids in the middle and upper class homes. Sure, risking their lives might not be the safest solution but I am saying this to prove to you that they are just lazy people who do not want to try to help themselves, so why should we help them? It is not like our ancestors cared about them or anything, they would just live their own normal lives, while the poor people suffered as they lived in really bad conditions. Whereas the people who live in the higher classes, who are more fortunate, must not help those people who live in poverty whatsoever, we have much more important things to do and we should not care about the people who are lower than us.
All we should do is to take care of ourselves and our children. One day, they will grow up and you will see how they turn out to be, so if they are raised well you will be very proud of them. We should raise them just like how we were raised, so they would turn out to be just like us, if not better. Our children are the ones who are going to lead the future, they are the ones who will raise the upcoming generations, so it is our job as parents to lead them and take responsibility to raise them with a really good reputation but once again it is definitely not our job to take care of the poor.
They have to be very responsible for their lives because obviously if they are not then, it's their choice and we will not take care of them whatsoever. The poor should not think that we will help them, they should not think that being successful is easy. People have been that way ever since I was really young this was from the mid 1800’s and I remember that I used to live in the country where I was surrounded by poor people and no one got any help from the higher classes, so I had to work really hard to get to where I am now, and it would not be fair if we helped the poor. If they want to be in the upper class or at least in the middle class, then they should work really hard at a place where they could get a higher income which is really hard to find since they are not well educated and poor health conditions. They have to just deal with their lives if they do not want to change their lifestyle. Thank you. ”