Poverty change people, I never thought as much until i came back from abroad.
I visited my old neighborhood while growing up to see some of my guys in the past, I observe that most of them have changed to something else, from their behavior to how they sees life, and to how bittered they are. Though we still get along well base on the kind of person I am, I don't even sees myself like the rich guy they take me for, but I also feel their pain because life haven't been fair to them, a caring and loving guy before is now always bittered, the best I can do, which I did was to introduce them to Bitcoin and cryptocurrency.
Poverty is a disease that changes people.
In my opinion, poverty can't change people, The only way I know poverty can change someone is, if they put themselves into depression. money also change people, Because some wealthy individuals have committed suicide due to depression.
When you are poor, you don't have to work as hard to obtain certain things that will completely change your life. Perhaps your friends have been too lazy to overcome obstacles in life, which is why they have allowed poverty change them.
it's a good idea as you introduce them to cryptocurrency so they can at least learn about it, but are you certain they can handle it when they don't have any source of income? Because I've read here that having a source of income is a necessary for investing in bitcoin, it allows us to buy bitcoin and also use it to pay for our outside expenses.
And don't you think poverty could lead people to suffer from depression? Because to me it certainly sounds like something very possible, to be honest; specially if we are talking about people who did not suffer from poverty during their whole life but entered in a bad period for their finances and now they can barely get by and pay for their stuff. The worst part about it is that in many occasions, people who got into poverty were going okey but the administration of their government committed mistakes which caused people's savings to completely fade away. I have personally gone through it.
Yes, in my opinion poverty can change people in a very negative sense and I don't think it is completely fair on blaming poverty ln the poor. Sure, they have some responsibility on their situation, much responsibility but they cannot change their context, their conomy, the ideology of the ruling party. They can only adapt and try to improve and survive, and it is in that struggle for survival when people change and become very different to people who knew them in previous years.