For example, if you give a certain amount of money to a poor person to spend on their own work, you will see that instead of helping them, they will buy more clothes, furniture, mobile phones, etc. But don't invest in a place that will be of use to them in the near future. On the upside if you offer them a specific job opportunity without paying a specific amount of money. But they will stay with that job, they will not look for another job if they have one job. This is why I think poverty is a human problem.
If you give some amount of money to a poor person to spend, I don't think you should worry about what they do with it because if they spend it on unnecessary items, they won't ask you for another. However, some poor people want to live like others, if they receive any amount of money, all they think about is buying expensive clothes, to look good in front of others. Although it is not wrong to spend money on clothes, at least you must have enough money so that if you buy clothes, you will still have money to handle other problems. It's a bad idea to show up good while hungry. I have a friend who can afford to buy clothes, yet he always complains about being hungry, I wonder if clothes are more crucial than his stomach.
Yes, that's right, if we really want a good life or get out of poverty, of course we have to work hard because our lives do not depend on other people so it is we ourselves who have to change it, there is no way that other people will change it, other people only provide support not by changing our lives completely. Indeed the government may sometimes provide assistance to us but, it does not fully help, working hard is one of the ways we can change our situation from poor to better, do not rely on other people or the government because it will not help us fully.
I agree with you, the solution is in ourselves, if indeed we are aware of poverty then we must move forward, it is also impossible for anyone to want to stay in poverty forever it will not be comfortable and not the purpose of life either. Expecting others or the government will not change our situation for the better, after all I think it would be embarrassing if we depend on others, make an effort if you really want change.
I agree with you, if we want our lives to get out of poverty, we need to work for it. We don't have to sit in one place and think that our life will be good for tomorrow, there is no way. In my country Nigeria there is a saying that if you remain poor, you are on your own because we do not depend on our government any longer. The government will provide some assistance once a year, and how did they expect us to survive with that? I don't know the purpose of doing it, that is why we do not have to depend on others to have a better life since we are the ones to give ourselves the good life, we have to fight for it with hard work. Nobody wishes to remain in poverty forever because is like a disease in the human body.