Differences Between Wealth And Poverty

What is wealth and poverty? Poverty is lack of shelter. Wealth is having large mansions. Poverty is staying in hunger. Wealth is going to expensive restaurants to have meals. Poverty is not being able to get proper education due to having difficulty buying books or other essentials needed in order to attend school. Wealth is attending private, expensive colleges or universities. Poverty is having an illness and not being able to see a doctor. Wealth is having private doctors and expensive medical care. Poverty is lack of freedom and being powerless. Wealth is having too much freedom to do anything and having a higher power. In this society people are put in to two groups by measuring how much money they have. People with large amounts of money …show more content…
Crime is related to poverty in an enormous way. When people have less money, they tend to commit crimes in order for survival. For example one will break into a shop and steal money in order to buy food or to provide the family with essentials. In this society, people are grouped into two categories. People who has enough money to live a luxury life and people who do not have enough money and is unable to enjoy life or find it very difficult to survive. Although crime is mainly related to poverty, it is also related to the wealthy in a slight way. Most of the time wealthy people commit crimes by using illegal drugs. For a example a wealthy drug addict may spend thousands of dollars in order to get the particular drug illegally. Another difference with the wealthy and the poor is that many wealthy people care less about their families and all they care about is running the business successfully or finding new ways to make more money. Having too much money can take away all the interests in life one day. Wealthy people buy cars, large mansions, private jets and islands. One someday there is not going to be anything interesting they could do, because having too much money had made them do everything they wanted in life in a small period of time. Life becomes boring and many wealthy people are going through depression because of this reason. On the other hand, people in the line of poverty knows the real value of family …show more content…
For example, most children in developing countries fall sick more often or die at a very early age because of not having enough money to treat the illness. Education also has a large connection with poverty and wealth. People who finish high school and attend college and live a good life because getting the proper education eventually leads them to obtaining a good degree which results in them finding good jobs that pay well. Having a good income lets people enjoy life with stress free. They are able to afford medicine when having a sickness. Most people who drop out before finishing school end up being poor. This makes them unable to find a job or in many cases end up finding a job that pays less than everyone