Topic: What is the common cause of poverty? - page 23. (Read 9375 times)

The common cause will always be the humans. Its rarely to see someone who is willing to sacrifice for others.

Causes for poverty
1. Lack of education
2. Lack of resources
3. International sanctions
4. Invading
5. Internal riots and protests

For me poverty arises from laziness but it is aggravated by ignorance

The common cause of poverty is corruption of government officials. The money that is intended for the poor goes to the pocket of the greedy politicians.

The main cause of poverty is our self. We become too dependent to our family and government. We must learn how to stand on our own and be a productive individual to our society. Our laziness has no room in this world. We must set our own goal so that we can have a drive to give our effort, time and knowledge. 

Although this is very true, and I have a lot of respect for those who manage to lift themselves up out of poverty by their own efforts, we have to admit that the system and therefore the statistics are rigged in favor of some.

If you have 100 people of equal ability born into varying degrees of abject poverty, some will be able to use grit, determination, hard work and luck and combine them into a stepladder of success. But because success requires more than we can control ourselves - just think of the difference between being born into an Indian village with no electricity never mind internet connection, and being born the  daughter or son of a crypto specialist, wealthy engineer, or politician - it becomes corresponsindingly harder for those who have the least luck to pull themselves up using their own powers. And this problem is compounded by the fact that many of these talents e.g. grit and determination are themselves affected by environmental factors such as b6 deficiency and lead levels, which many poor people are exposed to. So if you compare this to 100 people of equal ability born into, say, a wealthy Western or upper-middle class family which is able to send you to school, pay for a computer, maybe even hire tutors, buy proper food, &c. I think we can all agree that more of those in this second group will become successful and not poor. So the answer is both, really,--but its not entirely fair to blame either the environment or the individual fully, in my opinion.

Different nations have different characteristic due to various reasons. Those countries who went along the agrarian path of development, unfortunately, lost everything today. Some became victims of the expansion of technically developed countries and moved to areas that were unsuitable for life. Others suffered because of the technogenic development of civilization - natural resources for their full-fledged existence are depleted, as consumption around the world exceeds the productivity of the planet.
In a situation where the greater part of mankind has gone technogenic way, small agrarian countries have to drag out a miserable existence (((

It is not a saying, but a very famous quote made by Bill Gates. And he was spot on. Even the poor people have thousands of options to get out of poverty. If they work hard, then nothing in the world can stop them from becoming successful with their life. And we have dozens of examples around us. A few are Howard Schultz (Starbucks), Oprah Winfrey and Francois Pinault.

There is this saying that if you are born poor, it is not your fault but if you die poor it is your fault. Its hard to be poor. Lack of education is one cause of poverty. More people are incompetent. Although many jobs are available, still having low education does not suite any. Although government have funds, some officials are corrupt. But somehow, everyone can get out of poverty with their own effort. There is always a way and nothing is impossible.

Actually, there are more than one common cause of poverty. First is, discipline. The way people handle money.
I can see most people don't know how to spend money efficiently. They waste money by gambling and bad habits.
And the second is, corrupt government. It's popular to all of us, i suppose. Most politicians ask or have been given a money to be spent in projects but they keep almost half of it.

For me it's laziness, if all of the peoples are hard working no children will cry in hunger. Next is lack of knowledge if persons are lack of knowledge they are not able to find a better job, and can't earn enough money for their daily expenses ..

I think there are many reasons for poverty, including: family overpopulation, overpopulation, too lazy people

Lack of job is the main  cause of poverty.

The cause is stupidity, laziness, weakness...that's my point of view.

Poverty is caused by greed, lack of education, and lack of employment opportunities and overpopulation.

 I would say that major cause of poverty in the Philippines which is my country is the inequitable distribution of wealth among Filipinos. Only a little over 10 percent control the wealth of the nation. If you were born poor, everything will be stacked against you, that is, lack of education and the opportunity for gainful employment, to keep body and soul together, especially during hard times.

One of the main cause of poverty is on how the government solve this problem, many government official before are just making poverty as a props to get money from the people and the government that makes poor become poorer and rich become richer.

In addition, I think it is just unprofitable for many developing and developed countries, that the poor countries of Africa (for example) come out of poverty.

Lack of knowledge and education. Poor health education. Shortage or lack of job opportunities and attitude towards life and being sorry for oneself causes poverty. Help yourself up. If you are poor do not be poor forever

I dont think there is one common cause of poverty as there are many factors to consider.

Sure attitude is one big issue but sometimes their circumstance just cant be helped.

For example if you live on an small rural island away from the capital of your city chances are the infrastructure are much simpler
The wages are much lower, everyone's mind set is short term and slow paced (big island cities are an exception; Hawaii, etc)

Here in the philippines most of the people from the country side flock to the capital to look for high paying jobs.