Myth Of Poverty Essay

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Franklin D. Roosevelt once quoted “The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.” I can identify with this quote because it’s saying to me that we as a society are not progressing or moving forward if the fulfillment in riches doesn’t increase our desire to want help those less fortunate then ourselves. We will eventually obtain a poor mindset. Speaking of which, Poverty, I don’t even know where to begin to define what poverty truly is. I feel the poverty is a sense of knowing that you have no access to basic human needs such as food, water, shelter, education, a sense of freedom and a definition of who you are as person. Not having materialistic possessions doesn’t even come close. I really feel that no one truly is grateful of their livelihood until they truly understand what it means and to be put in the position of being poor. …show more content…

For example there are six common myths about the poor; People are poor because they are lazy and refuse to work, most poor people are minorities, most poor people live in inner cities, most of the poor are single mothers, most of the poor are elderly and the poor get special advantages. Taking a look at the first myth, I think if you were poor, wouldn’t that make you want to work twice as hard just to survive? I think that’s an idiotic myth because just because you are wealthy that doesn’t mean you earned every dime. Poor people do not have weaker work ethics or lower levels of motivation than wealthier people. Wealth and prestige could have been handed to you and if that’s the case in my book you probably couldn’t stand on your own two feet. You don’t know the value of a dollar and what it’s like not to have anything. When you have nothing left to lose, you have everything left to

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