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?
In life when it comes to money, we have 3 categories of people. They are:
👉The poor
👉The average people
👉The rich
The poor are the people who hardly can feed themselves. They have children but can't sent them to school nor cater for their health.
A man that can feed himself and his family with their three daily meals and have everything to survive isn't poor or rich. He's just an average man. This is because he doesn't have excess. He only has what is needed to take care of himself and his family.
A man with excess