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Is poverty in society inevitable?
3 min readFeb 15, 2022
‘Poverty’ is the state of nature as populations increase until just above starvation. But, is this ‘bad’?
* Yes, because poverty is subjective and the poorest people in any society are going to be described as living in poverty. Hardly a hundred years ago literally everyone gave birth at home and people died from polio and malaria. Today that would be considered living in poverty. Poverty back then meant visible ribs and bones, now even overweight people can be classed as living in poverty. Ofc there are parts of the world where things are still as bad as it was back then.
* Yes, because GREED remains to dwell in the hearts of most people, resulting in a superficial scarcity of the world’s natural resources.
* ‘Poverty’ is the state of nature as populations increase…
