Ways To Measure Poverty

We could look at the amount of money people have relative to each other, which is the main way we measure poverty between countries. We could look at the opportunities afforded citizens in different countries and mark those with easier health care, better education, healthier foods. We could look at the politics and the life expectancy due to the general climate of the country – politically stable or prone to civil wars? We could look at the past and judge what countries have raised standards and which have not and which have fallen. And we could, which I think international agencies tend to do, do all of these and give slightly different weight to then in their finds.

Or we could look at the earth and the minute variances in physics that would make the planet impossible, we could look at our mere existence  and the brilliance of a world where we have everything we could possibly want right at our feet, and consider that everyone is wealthy to be born, to have self-awareness, to know of life.

And then poverty would be reserved as a determination of suffering and nothing else. In the deprivations of mind and the deprivations of what the Earth has to offer us, not what money can buy. In fact poverty could become only a determination of how much ignorance exists in the human race because life makes us rich. We don’t have to point a finger and say ‘you are poor’, all we have to do, to be honest, is look at those we think are poor and realise humanity is ignorant to allow this to be so.