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Quote from: Hydrogen on September 26, 2018, 08:51:24 AM

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The basis of being a poor- how little or how big?

Awhile ago, there was a study done on infants which were born addicted to hard drugs.

Their final conclusion was that being born into poverty is a far more debilitating and crippling condition than being born addicted to crack or assorted hard drugs.

The mentalities, attitudes, conditions and values which lead to people being in poverty could be contagious and harmful to human development. And so being born into that environment and being in constant contact with those living that life could have severe negative effects upon a person's mindset, attitude and soul.

That's the best I can come up with atm.

I totally agree. Like they always say generally, you are your environment. On a normal day, you get challenged by the people you see around you either negatively or positively and since we know that poverty has a way of secluding those in that category into a particular space, we tend to see them accepting that life, believing that is their own fate and then move on with how they just see things.

It would really take someone who gets lucky, or was able to have this inbuilt challenging spirit to be able to get out of it, most especially when exposed to such environment from birth.

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Being poor doesn't really mean that you should be a beggar. If you have difficulties providing your needs and your salary or income is below than what is usual, you can be considered poor. It isn't really something to argue about. It is clear to see the difference between the rich and the poor. The rich ones who suffered a lot about money doesn't mean they are actually poor, it is just a matter of a choice for them to spend their money wisely or not.

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There are so many factors of being poor.

- no money
- no work
- poor education
- no home
- no investment or little investment
- no friends
- no food

Aside from these, there are also people who may be rich but poor in other areas.

In our investments, it depends on you. Are you poor or rich? How did you invest?

I may be poor in some areas of life but i’m rich where my heart really invested - my family.

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I think the basis of being a poor is the attitude of being lazy. Anyone can have work if he/she is hardworking and would not choose what work he/she must have.

Situations can be better and bad depends upon the actions of a person towards financial situations as well as other life activities which are important and should be taken care of. If you are financially challenged then you need to change your situations, you need to start a low scale business where you can make profit easily and then with your savings you can upgrade to crypto trading but the only one thing which will help you out in overall journey is your knowledge.

You have said it in the way that makes it sound so easy. What you are forgetting is that unless you have been exposed to some certain things, you see the way people do things around you to make a good living, and you get challenged to work hard and smart, towards leaving that line of poverty, it would be very hard to achieve those things you have mentioned.

Take for instance, someone who was born poor, lived in a ghetto where crime is a norm of the day, sometimes could not even get proper education, all these things limit such a person to that environment, and it usually takes some determination, sacrifice of maybe your parent to give you a good education despite everything as well as some good upbringing to be able to get out of such mentality and be able to make something out for yourself in the long run. All the same, all this is still something that will now finally ball down on the path each individual want to decide to take eventually.

I completely agree with that and I think a lot of people often make the assumption that it's all the fault of the poor person. While it is true that some people manage to escape their poor upbringings, the vast majority stay stuck in their 'social class'. It shouldn't be underestimated how difficult it can be to find a decent job, when your parents didn't put you in a good school or didn't teach you the right skills in life.

A solution would be to really try and tackle generational poverty. Give people housing and a decent education at low costs, I think that would certainly be a big step in the right direction.

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Quote from: Jemroe01 on September 18, 2018, 11:50:00 AM

A human need of survival extends to the growth of a family, of the certainty in achieving a prosperous life. Yet what's really the basis of being a poor? Talking about the significance of money comes along with how much a family earned daily, weekly, monthly or even a year. Constant with the changing society is the changes in the field of market factors such that increased in demand grows above rate.

Weighing on how little... is how little do we earned, how little we are as a whole, and how little the world could turn upside down in just a second. Economically, for someone to be called a poor isn't based upon the money itself, but the reality that a person experiences every day such that even how big you are if you're still trying to come forward just a little step is a lot difficult compared to the others is basically the poor one.

We do have different views on being poor. The standard basis of it is on what a person have in terms of properties, and also the salary of a person. But being poor can also be measured through experiences. One of it is that experiences of us in comparing ourselves with other people. We might see ourselves poor in that view but in reality we might not really poor. So we should always appreciate what we havr right now and see that you might be blessed enough to see that you were really not a poor person.

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In different countries in different ways. In some especially African poverty is quite common, and people can do nothing about it!

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Quote from: Jemroe01 on September 18, 2018, 11:50:00 AM

A human need of survival extends to the growth of a family, of the certainty in achieving a prosperous life. Yet what's really the basis of being a poor? Talking about the significance of money comes along with how much a family earned daily, weekly, monthly or even a year. Constant with the changing society is the changes in the field of market factors such that increased in demand grows above rate.

Weighing on how little... is how little do we earned, how little we are as a whole, and how little the world could turn upside down in just a second. Economically, for someone to be called a poor isn't based upon the money itself, but the reality that a person experiences every day such that even how big you are if you're still trying to come forward just a little step is a lot difficult compared to the others is basically the poor one.

There are a lot of ways to become financially free but it is up to that person for what is he/she going to be in order to achieve it. We just have to struggle a little more and be productive everyday.

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Quote from: THANKS_Tokens on October 04, 2018, 03:17:45 AM

As everyone mentioned the basis of being poor is different.
In my country ( that is a poor country with corrupted government ) since you can get food for eat you are not a poor person. they don't consider other needs for basis of being a poor and with this cheap way of thinking,more than %70 of our population is rich since they can eat food everyday!

as long as most of the people can meet their daily basic requirement, you are not consider poor. no matter how long you work, what you work, where you work. That's what they though. sad things is many thing that they decided not to care about, the country is poorly manage, people is discontent.

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The basis of poor is simple he don't have enough savings or investment which can secure him better standard of living...

I do not agree to this allusion because for me, I don't see being poor as not having money in cash or at all, or not having investments. I rather see poor as the lack in every spear of life, example, knowledge, political connection, health, charismatic and influential etc.

Have we not heard or seen rich people who don't know how to use their money to influence people? People would rather dance to the tune of a poor man who is an orator rather than a wealthy man more like a moron? Roll Eyes

Have we not heard of poor gate attendant who connects people to jobs/employments ?

Have we not heard of poor man whose phone contacts is filled with high and mighty?

In other words, being poor sometimes is not only when you don't have investments but when you can't help yourself or others.

Bill Gates says that “if you born poor it is not your fault but if you die poor it is your fault.” It means that you have guts to become rich. You have no ability to earn money from different income source. Our leader said work, work and work. It means that you will have to work hard to become successful in life. World is full of opportunities but only smart and clever people can benefit from these opportunities.

the difference is, if you work, you may have slight chance to make difference on your life for better. its a risk worth to take. either for survival or better life.

But if you not working, chance are zero. rewards come with effort. each and every small effort counts.

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Quote from: BagzMM on September 27, 2018, 08:07:45 AM

I think the basis of being a poor is the attitude of being lazy. Anyone can have work if he/she is hardworking and would not choose what work he/she must have.

Situations can be better and bad depends upon the actions of a person towards financial situations as well as other life activities which are important and should be taken care of. If you are financially challenged then you need to change your situations, you need to start a low scale business where you can make profit easily and then with your savings you can upgrade to crypto trading but the only one thing which will help you out in overall journey is your knowledge.

good and bad situations depend on us and how we invest in them. if we always invest with a sense of emotion we will not be able to control the brain and desire. so that can make us lose.

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Quote from: pizzaonpineapple on September 20, 2018, 09:16:14 PM

There's mental poverty and ecomonical poverty.
Mental poverty comes from a person who has no aspirations in life, a person who isn't useful for his community or himself, someone who life to make everyones life miserable as his, and those people aren't necessarily poor in their finances.
And ecomonical poverty when people don't produce the minimun amount of money needed to have a confortable life, like a nice place to sleep or warm water.

well said, for one to be called poor is the inability to sustain his needs, may it be for himself of for his entire family, the inability to have a job that suits his uneducated status, sadly, one cannot find a job that can sustain his needs if he is a non degree holder or has no educational attainment, the country that does not cater this kind of problem can truly produce a poor society.

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the basis of being poor does not depend on how much money he or she has. the main issue is will he be able to survive for long time with the amount of money he has. the quality of life depends on not only how much money you have but also where you live in. in a village or in a small city or in a capital.

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We have 3 different levels of society- Rich, Middle Class and the poor. People in the lowest level are struggle always they looking for food, Middle Class always buy things they don't like-They buy stuff or pay their liabilities without proper control of money. I'm sure people at the highest level earn alot of profit and find more opportunities to make them rich.

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Quote from: Kemarit on September 27, 2018, 03:37:11 AM

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The basis of being a poor- how little or how big?

For me it has something to do with the environment and of course how you brought up. I have to admit that I will consider myself very lucky because my family doesn't have much money and its really hard growing up. Buy my parents didn't give up, they work really hard to put us in a good school. The environment that time was very different though, lots of crimes, drugs all around our neighborhood but it didn't deter them for raising us well educated. Just sad though that my mom died at early age of 55 years old but all her hard work pays off because we all grown to be have education that help up alleviate our lives and never remain in the poverty line.

Whew! That is quite some touching story and may her soul keep resting in peace. The thing is that you are always your environment and unless you have a good upbringing and you are able to even challenge yourself from not mixing with those who can deter the way you think or be an obstacle to your success in the long run, it will be hard to not get mixed up in a poor environment and like you said, criminal activities within that space is always huge as we get to see people just trying to survive at all cost.

It is really a big thing I must say, and it would take some grace and strong spirit to not get entwined in the long run.

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As everyone mentioned the basis of being poor is different.
In my country ( that is a poor country with corrupted government ) since you can get food for eat you are not a poor person. they don't consider other needs for basis of being a poor and with this cheap way of thinking,more than %70 of our population is rich since they can eat food everyday!

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Being poor means that person doesn't have money to buy anything or fill that person needs. But the basis of being poor is different in every country, and you can see what is happening between the developed country and developing country. Maybe the poor people in the developed country can get something like food, water. But in the developing country, sometimes that person having difficult to get food or water and he needs to struggle to get that thing.

So if we talk about how little or how big, this is a difficult thing because it depends on where that person lived. And how hard that person survives in that country and how he can fill his daily needs because we need to eat in every day. But as long as we want to try to search a job and we can earn money to buy food and else, then we can still survive but we still on the poverty because we are struggling to live in our country.

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Poverty is much more a state of mind than a question of bank account.
In the West, many who feel "poor" would be considered very rich in third world countries.
So, it's all very relative.

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Let's be honest, being poor it's all about the money. If you have money you can have anything while without having money you can have only a few things. Being poor means not having enough money to live the life that you desire. You wake up every day and you worry about your life, about your work, your family & friends and every other thing just because you don't have money to do the things you want to do.

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Being poor is not forever if you born nothing. Do your best to get out to the life of being poor. Change your life by simply doing things that will help you succeed. Work hard is one of the key to become successful. Its your fault if you stay poor for the rest of your life, you are the one who make decisions for yourself. Theres a lot of oportunities that you will see around you just be open minded and positve in life.

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Indeed thats the truth and this is how it should be thought. The poor people is hot topic when it comes to the economics distribution of the country as well as how people live their life that class. I guess everyone think about the poor as the people who doesnt have the money. But its not about that. Its also about the education that they lack and due to which they are not able to cop up their current situation as they are left out of the situation always. They wont be getting any good ranks in the jobs they will be doing, and mostly such people will be doing the labour work rather than skilled one. So their growth always gets halted. May be that the poerty. Someone who isn't able to overcome their current situation for many reasons.

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