While no one in good conscience can say poverty is a positive state, it no doubt benefits the non-poor in numerous ways. This concept is explained with multiple examples in the excerpt, “The Uses of Global Poverty: How Economic Inequality Benefits the West”, by Daina Stukuls Eglitis. The article begins with a blunt contrast between a “stately mansion” and a “tattered shanty” in order to depict the vast gap that exists between the wealthy and poor of the world. Eglitis explains through examples that the reason this trend continues to exist is due to the benefit the wealthy receive as a result of the sufferings of the poor. One example that struck me is how global poverty supports innovation in medicine for Western consumers. By testing on the
