Poverty is Caused by Bad Karma

Becoming rich is a highly desirable goal in most people’s lives; it includes owning various valuable possessions and wealth. A contrasting rich is poverty, which there are two types of; relative and absolute poverty. Relative poverty is when you can only afford the minimum levels of the necessities to life, such as food, clothing, shelter, money, medication etc...) Absolute poverty consists of barely having the sufficient amount of basic needs to survive; therefore people who are in absolute poverty are the people who suffer the most. There are also two very different types of rich, one is physically rich, when someone earns a lot of money and gathers a lot of wealth. There is also being spiritually rich which is not considered by most, it consists of having a lot of belief and faith in any religion you worship and following the practices that need to be followed to be a good devotee. Some Christians believe that the only type of richness acceptable is being spiritually rich and not physically rich. I intend to argue that it’s acceptable for there to be rich people in this world even if poverty is present.

Firstly, it’s acceptable for there to be rich people in this world because there is a possibility that some kind-hearted rich person would donate a generous segment of their wealth to those suffering from poverty. An example of this type of rare, generous person would be John Laing, a faithful Christian who faced many troubles trying to bring his father’s business forward; however it resulted in heavy loss at the beginning because of his desperate need to succeed and achieve a lot. After eventually succeeding in bringing his business forward and being one of the most richest and successful business men in his community and beyond, John Laing donated nearly all of his money to charity. However donating most of his money to charity did not decrease his ambitiousness, helping others motivated John to start larger projects and earn more money, because the more money he earns the more money he can be able to donate to help the poor. Another Christian role model aspect in John’s personality is that he also doesn’t brag about his billion dollar donations, for example he anonymously provided money for the “London Bible College” to be begun and be established. Therefore people like John Laing have proved to the world it is possible for a human to be spiritually and physically rich.