Throughout or childhood we tend to get gifts and luxurious from our parents and friends. We get to grow and move from middle school to high school and eventually to college. Our gifts and luxurious tend to get more expensive and relatively our needs tend to grow as well. If a teenager doesn't get what he wants or his friends have something he doesn't have he feels people would think he is "poor". A lot of teenagers tend to use the term poor a lot to describe the absence of some kind of luxury or trend in someone. What do I mean? Simply that people can be called poor because they don't have expensive clothes or a car for example. Poor?
Do people really know what poor is?
You would probably answer yes because you have in reference all those people out there living in third world countries. Maybe the case of Africans or countries in the middle east that barley have something to eat. You could reference yourself to the supposedly massive number of people that live with $1 USD a day.
Now let me tell you that I was one of those persons that though all of the above. However after today's class and statistics I learned new thinks.
"If you could go back in time and by the king of a nation, would you do it?"
A question that I automatically answer yes to myself but then suprisnly leaned something interesting out of it. In reality in terms of living standards your answer should be no! You would think I'm crazy. Who doesn't want to be a king or a queen? Now let me tell you that in fact people live substantially nicer lifestyle than a king or a queen did before? Surprising isn't....
Now coming back to the poor topic. The poorest person right now will never compare to the poorest person 200 years ago. Right now the people living with $1 USD a day decrease in the past 50 years. So if you think you know what poor is you definitively don't know what does it mean. Being poor right now is way better than being poor 1000 years ago.
-Rizzo
Daniel Gaona
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