Why there is poverty ?

Question

The nature has bestowed its inhabitants on earth with sufficient resources to satisfy the needs of every one. However, why this heaven is a hell for many?

Answer 1

POVERTY is a result of laziness, ignorance and abuse from within or from outside.

Also, poverty can be a relative word. A man with 5 cars thinks he is poor because he doesn't have 10 cars.

Poverty can be a result of always looking a half empty glass of water than looking at it as half full.

Answer 2

In short the driving force in the world is money. Since we don't live a unified utopia, those who cannot earn a job for whatever reason;

being born into poverty
disabled
lazy

cannot sustain them selves and fall into poverty. What your talking about isn't the case. There is enough resources but not everyone is privy to them. In other third world countries people are born into the crushing poverty that already exists. Countries that are not as industrialized, or economically advanced, are in a sense stuck in a finical sink hole. There are no jobs because the country either A) cannot afford to build business to fill those jobs, or B) are ruled by a unjust dictatorship who keeps his peoples money and corrupts him own countries businesses. Such as a certain dictator whose country was in a constant state of poverty and upheaval....but his son had gold AK47's.

Business makes jobs, jobs feed people, people in turn create new jobs from those and the country thrives.

However believe it or not as of 2000 our world now has over 6 Billion inhabitants. Food can actually run out. Our farm industry works like crazy supplying an overweight America, I say this with a heavy heart since I am an American. But I still see the truth. With out proper, again, Industry* a country will fail.

If you have no industry ( business) then you have no work, and people starve. It can become epidemic quite fast. Our own country (US) has seen such forces at work, i.e. the depression. Its very easy for a country to fall into poverty and sadly there are countries that do.

Answer 3

Poverty is relative. In order for an elite class, society or nation to survive it requires an underclass support its status. Even within so called ‘poor’ societies or communities there are those that have more than others, thus, in this context they become an elite of the poor.

It is also important to define what is meant by ‘poverty’: the peasant farmer who owns little, has no money but lives in an environment that sustains his crops and livestock as often considered to be poor whilst the city worker who earns well, lives on takeaway food, has a car, TV and mobile phone but has significant debt, works long hours away from home and family and is under considerable stress is rich.

I often come across young people who are clearly neither homeless or hopeless begging in the street and I ask myself, I bet they don’t have to get up a 5.50 am to go to work, get home at 8.00pm, I bet they haven’t got a 160 thousand pounds mortgage, credit cards and overdraft hanging over their head. The thing is, I don’t know what hardships they do have so who am I to judge. The point is, whilst we live in a materialist society those at the top to that society require there to be a bottom in order to preserve their status.

Answer 4

There is poverty for many reasons:

*People continue to live in areas where land is not suitable for dwelling or has run out of it's natural resources of food and water.

*People In a state of poverty are not educated enough academically to find another livelihood -----and not enough educated or rich people are willing or caring enough to help others less educated , in order to help solve these problems.

* People in a state of poverty don't have the financial means, and depends on aid and charity.

* Tribal wars prevents food getting to people in some cases.

* Country being just too poor to cope with the needs of it's population.

Just some reasons.

Answer 5

Define poverty! Many people think of themselves as poor, but in fact they are not hungry, they have a home and sometimes even an old car... Which is enough for a living. Then again, there are those in uder-developed countries that are actually hungry and homeless, and I guess they are so poor because the rest of the world is preoccupied with other problems, unfortunately. Priorities are wrong here, aren't they.

Answer 6

First, it's important to understand that the opposit of "poor" isn't "rich". The opposit of "poor" is "not poor". Something most of the previous posters don't seem to understand.

In the United States, poverty is mostly a choice. People choose to be poor with the actions they take, whether or not they intended to do so. Dropping out of school, having babies at a young age, using drugs, etc.

Are there exceptions? Sure, but true exceptions are few and very far between.

Answer 7

This could be heaven for everyone if humans were not greedy. When people start getting good food, land , housing etc they do not think 'ahh this is nice'. No, they want more and bigger and better. In gaining it they deprive someone of their share. Humans have to learn to be glad to help others and not just themselves. Think of the story about the identical heaven and hell. There was plentiful food but everyone had to eat with six foot long chopsticks. People starved in hell, trying to manage the chopsticks to feed themselves,but in Heaven the people were happy and well fed because they used the chopsticks to feed others and got fed themselves.

Answer 8

the answer is simple. to have a balance in the universe. the reason being if everybody would have to become rich and richer, the basic needs of life, like food, clothing, shelter, etc. would never be fulfilled, as no one would require to grow grains, or build houses working under the scorching heat of the sun or weave cotton out of the cotton plants from the fields. remember, god has a plan for everybody and a part of every persons life is to play a small significant role, a very minute role, but significant.

Answer 9

The nature of pure capitalism makes the rich richer and the poor are used to fight wars. Other forms of government such as communism, dictatorships make a very few rich at the expense of the poor.

The Europeans with a regulated form of capitalism seem to look after their people better than the rest.

Answer 10

Those who can, acquire.
Those who cannot, starve.

That is why I never give to foreign aid charities because in all the famine and destitute countries, you have the fat politicians and despots lording it in splendorous opulence over the people and laughing as the rest of the world tries to help.

Charity begins at home!

Zimbabwe and all the other places being bled to death need to assassinate their Robert Mugabe's and install a Government that gives a **** for the people.

Oh, just in case any asshole out there thinks I am a fat cat who cares less, my salary is £15,654 per annum.