- Sep 12, 2008
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Even the poorest Americans have access to resources that were undreamed of by kings 100 years ago, but they are still impoverished.
If you compare how folks live in the rest of the world (Check out Viikii.com for videos from all over to see how the rest of the world lives) you would see, in terms of cash anyway, no one in American is poor.
However, we do have people who are malnourished and always dependent on others for everything.
Poverty is not having a small amount of cash, it is using the cash badly.
Poverty is sexual incontinence, drug dependence, broken homes, lazyness, juggling debt. Under this formulation Lindsy Lohan and Paris Hilton live in poverty.
One can be poor, but not in poverty. Being poor sucks, but is often fate. You can take charge and change it
Poverty is where your behavior sucks, and karma bites you in the ass.
I hope some desperately poor person takes some initiative and robs you. That would be Karma.
Interesting statistic that has come out recently. The last several years have seen an ever sinking violent crime rate, and despite the fact that unemployment is now higher than at any time in memory, so is violent crime. There is no corealtion between unemployment and criminal activity.
Since you are doing the job you are doing, you are pretty much an expert in poverty and crime. But unemployment and crime is a different kettle of fish.