Poverty is not a choice
Recently, I had read an article in The New City newspaper entitled, "Poverty is really a matter of choice". I found the article to be quite deceptive. Actually, I was dazed at the editor's justification concerning that poverty was a matter of choice. Solomon, in his brief anecdotes about his "poor" deprived friends was in fact, far from living in poverty. Also, in his next argument using the U.S and Canada's statistics, were found by me to be misleading to the reader. One last thing I would like to mention is on his statement that, "Lifestyle choices dictate income levels, not the other way around". But we don't choose to be poor. Solomon's explanations on choosing to live in poverty were very ludicrous and very unconvincing. His antidotes and statistics didn't help in convincing, but did a great job of trying to mislead the reader. We human beings, without a doubt, make decisions to our advantage, and never the other way around. So why would we want choose to live a life of poverty when we can live a pleasant life of wealth? Since I do not agree with Solomon's theory, I would not believe that people would choose to live in poverty. Rather, I believe that poverty is in some way controlled by the person's living environm
In Solomon's last paragraph of his article, "lifestyle choices dictate income levels, not the other way around". To us, being wealthy means being able to live a happy and more enjoyable life, compared to be living in poverty. Like many things in life, I do believe that poverty is not a choice. If in fact it is a choice, I can't find any reasons why anyone would want to live that way. In modern civilization, money is extremely important. It's also your key to survival. Money also controls how you would live. Without money, you are very limited to what you can do in life. Money does play a very important role in life. People are ultimately controlled by what they can do or not do, or where you can go or where prohibited by the amount of money they have. Most of the time, more is better than less. ent, education, or maybe perhaps it's in their genes ever since the day they were born. From what I can see in our society, there is nothing enjoyable about living in poverty. Money may not be everything. But without it, people would look down at you. You'd be considered less important and you would be considered a liability in the society. You'd also be considered useless, and it will become harder and harder to climb up the scale. Since nuns didn't take vows of poverty because they wanted to live in poverty, but because of that fact that they had to in order to become a n
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