What does it mean to be poor? I would suggest that a person who has an intact roof over their head, living in a house with windows, doors, floors, air conditioning in the summer, heat in the winter, refrigerator, stove, microwave, washing machine, dryer, cable tv, computer, high speed internet, game machines, cell phones, nourishing food on the table, clean clothes on their bodies, a good education for their children, free health care, clean drinking water, clean air, is not poor, either in absolute term or relative term.
The world is full of billions of poor people who have little or none of the above. |
