Evils of Poverty

Evils of Poverty

Exactly one hundred years ago, George Bernard Shaw argued that "The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty." Shaw wrote this in the Preface to his brilliant play, Major Barbara, published in 1907. The tragedy of poverty is, of course, obvious to all - whether in Latin America, or in Asia or Africa, or in Europe and the United States. The calamity of deprivation and penury can hardly be missed by those who have bothered to think about the subject, no matter whether they are themselves poor or not. Lives are battered, happiness stifled, creativity destroyed, freedoms eradicated by the misfortunes of poverty. But Bernard Shaw was not talking, on this occasion, about the hardship of poverty, or the misfortune that goes with it. He was commenting, in a rather unusual way, about the causation and consequences of poverty - that it is bred through evil and ends up being a crime.

The reason why poverty is evil is because the wealthy make laws to protect their riches or wealth, rather than destroying poverty by giving to the poor, so when the poverty stricken want something to sustain their life, they have to break the laws that the wealthy created to keep their wealth safe, thus the poverty are a threat and evil to the wealthy. 
Just as Adam and Eve had everlasting life but they broke God's law that He made to keep them from the knowledge, His wealth of good and evil, for with that they could become as God knowing good and evil and have everlasting life as God, and God's powers would be under threat because they could give us life everlasting as they had. 
We all now are punished by God for being born through Carnal Knowledge and Sensuality thus we are in poverty and are evil to God because He won't give to us His wealth, the powers He has so as to give man everlasting life as He did for Adam and Eve, He has the wealth for Eternal Life. 

Even employees are servants to the wealthy one way or the other and beg and plead and do the will of the wealthy to keep their style of life, they too may be seen to be a threat and evil to the wealthy if they became too rich.One of the limitations of seeing poverty in terms of lowness of individual or family incomes is that personal income does not take into account the social climate, nor the social initiatives to eliminate deprivation. Poverty was reduced in Europe as much through providing what are called "public goods" - epidemiological care, educational facilities, shared legal protections and other such common resources - as through the generation of personal incomes and private goods. Any strategic understanding of the demands of poverty removal would be badly handicapped if it did not take this huge connection into account. The understanding that poverty is not only - or even primarily - about low private income is badly needed across the world today, not least in Latin America.

My argument so far has been based on seeing poverty as lowness of incomes. It works well enough when we are dealing with emergencies like famines or other disasters where some people have to starve because they have no income with which to buy food. The priority there is to recreate income for the afflicted victims, and once they have the income with which to buy food, they do not have to succumb to starvation and famine mortality.

As the margin of the rich and the poor widens, global poverty today has increased, the middle class cannot catch up with the rich and slid back among the poor causing the numbers of the poor to rise up, poverty in today's global village has become the root cause of all evils, because it has power and the ability to make people compromise their once held and respected moral values, cultures and religious beliefs, poverty has created a new race of people with common marks of frustrations, loss of hope, prospects and value for life.

Loss of the meaning of life, purpose of living something to live for and disillusionments about morality because the criminals live better, poverty which knows no boarder has pushed societies to loose human hearts and compassion for others, if one is hungry, stealing, prostitution will be an opted for solution, life becomes the survival of the fittest, in order to survive people engage in crime of all sorts including fraud, money laundering drug trafficking, sex trade and corruption.The saying an hungry man is an angry man has always been the true reflection of what mankind is capable of once the biological and basic need for food ,water ,shelter and other basic necessities if not attended to has bred waves of evil in the minds and hearts of the people.

The fact is that it is poverty and greed that breeds corruption, so it goes without saying that where poverty is alleviated, corrupt practices would be minimal or alleviated as well ( for corruption can never be eradicated and has not been eradicated anywhere in the world ) in other words poverty is a cause of corruption while corruption is the consequence of poverty and loss of moral values ,the high levels of poverty have resulted in many social problems including street kids, these kids are automatically exposed to various types of risks and hazards depending on the  socio-economic characteristics of the neighborhoods in which street are located all these is a result of poverty.