Poverty means the state of being poor. I believe "Poverty" depends on one's own thinking. Many people believe in simple living and high thinking. It is the words of Mahatma Gandhi. According to some peopl poverty is the root cause of many social evils such as begging of theft, prostitution and so on. If a poor man does crimes to become richer , it brings great disastrous events. This happens alot in communities were there is a great divide between poor and rich.
There has and always will be two main classes in society above the discrimination of caste, religious that is "Rich" and the "Poor". I have seen this divide even in my community. Usually a man born in poverty dies in poverty. Only once in a while the man from a poor family can rise up and become rich. This usually happens when educating and opportunity is provided in community without discrimination of caste. It is seen that though the rich have everything, it is the poor who live with honesty and courage in life.
There are some people in our society who believe that poverty is a curse and we can not run away from it. I don't believe this statement is true. Many great people , rich people , success people of the world have come from poor family background. I read a book recently called rich man poor man, where in they say that " Don't tell them the secret, keep the poor poor, that is how rich can stay rich. " I believe this is the reason that poverty is not being eradicated in society .W hen people are selfish and want more than what they need , there will be imbalance and poverty in society.
Poverty can be solved and problems with it too but for that we must work and support each other in the community. Poverty is not a curse but a situation and we can always change situations in our life. We just have to work hard until we change it.