There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Poverty is unnecessary.
A great philosopher has stated that the worst evil of poverty is, that it makes folks ridiculous; by which, I hope, he only means that, as in the above case, it places them in incongruous positions.
The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.
It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.
You learn pretty fast that there is no magic solution to poverty.
I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
Poverty is not just about income: it's about aspiration. It's not just about giving people a couple of extra pounds a week, welcome though that is.
Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.
Maybe poverty is a special case of something else. That something else is 'scarcity,' and anyone who has the experience of 'having very little' experiences the same psychology.
Poverty itself is not so bad as the poverty thought. It is the conviction that we are poor and must remain so that is fatal.
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