The blessing of poverty is the fact that the 'motivated because of hunger' poor see how the economic system moves and interacts because it is of importance to him. It means life and death to him. A slight movement in the economic system affects him for he is not insulated from any sudden, even if it is the slightest movement, like the 'fat-rich' because of the very fact that he is poor and hungry.
Serious, I hope our economic think-tank really knows what it means to be poor FIRST HAND and not limited to a ivory-tower concept of GDP. Even is GDP is the gold standard of the economic metrics.
The poor does not want luxury. The poor simply wants whole economic system to be stable. Even with high variability. The poor does not even expect fairness. The poor operationally grasp the concept of unfairness. I mean, they are poor already. They get it! The poor also operationally understand the concept of unpredictability. By this, I mean that their whole lifetime is a training in coping with unpredictability of things, like hunger = )
The rich does not get that!
But my hope, and prayer, is for poor people not embrace the preaching that self-worth is measured in how much money one has.
"Blessed are the poor..."
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