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Board Economics
Re: Is poverty a lack of money?
by
macson
on 21/06/2023, 20:01:28 UTC
I see poverty as the inability to provide what you need. So when people assume that poverty is when you don't have money I don't agree. Now what if you have all you need and you don't require money to buy anything, are you poor? Some people live in communities where everyone lives agrarian life. They have all they need because everything they need to survive is available. Food is on the farm, water available and everybody is happy. Although it was hard during the Covid-19 lockdown many people lived without money. I have also seen many people leaving cities and moving to rural areas to live a natural life.

In summary when you have everything you need to survive and you don't need money, are you poor?
you must be able to distinguish between poverty or those who are financially free and live simply.

i have an uncle who has a life like this (live simply and financially free), he already has everything even he has a lot of houses, cars and businesses that run on autopilot, he and his wife choose to live in the suburbs and only once a week go to the city to check on their business.  he once told me why there are still so many people who feel deprived, he answered it's all because of their lifestyle that doesn't suit their opinion and also why there are so many poor people, it's all because they are lazy to think and take risks.

broadly speaking, being poor means "not having money" but in my opinion poor is a "mental problem"