The idea for this thread came from another thread found here on this website:
Material scarcity and the lack of abundance is only half of what comprises poverty in society.
The major bulk of poverty is social poverty. What is social poverty?
It is the absence of having any real concrete voice of your own in society publicly or personally in acting on many of your own individual social and instinctual impulses in life while being directed by another person outside of your own mind and body who claims to have legislative title to own yourself biologically not to mention where they claim to have precedence over your existence socially altogether.
People assume poverty is merely a material manifestation like most modern economists.
Infact economics has less do with material things as it has more to do with sociality itself.
Modern economists cloud the public minds by focusing all their efforts on materialistic pursuits while they control and neglect the social ones where the general public remains distracted long enough in not noticing that anything has happened.
Material things are merely a social end.
Material objects do not dominate social relations. Social relations dominate material objects.
Modern poverty has more to do with social isolation, segragation, prejudice, privation,alienation,public ridicule and desensitization through forced public identical statuses against the will of another person by the state or by standardized intellectual associations who establish themselves as the representatives of the market status quo in symbolic technocratic collective.
As the state and standardized educational institutions establishes hegemony over all social or material transactions by claiming to have absolute sovereignty over such things exponentially, through the division of society with the effect of alienating social isolation social poverty occurs which then makes up the bulk of industrialized poverty in a post-modern world.
I explain poor people as being in a state of social depravity, isolation, ridicule, public shame, alienation, and social misery.
Although poor people are considerably payed less and have less materialistic things I particularly like to focus my aim on social poverty in public social relations as that is the major bulk of poverty itself.
Why isn’t social poverty eliminated? Economists since the very beginning of economics and market systemizations have assumed that the causes of poverty were a materialistic one where people not having the ability in order to get to material resources created a state of people becoming a poor social class.
By such an over-sweeping assumption they have completely ignored the social framework of people altogether.
The scarcity of materialistic resources only played a small part on poverty in individuals.
Since the bulk of poverty is infact social poverty throwing money and constructing mass consumerism where material objects are the center of attention will of course do nothing for poverty itself.
The root of poverty is not material objects but instead is social relations.
Yet I remain very pessimistic in that I look at the elimination of global poverty as an impossibility also considering that we are a predatory species and that we are all psychological egoists.
I had sort of an epiphany there for a moment in maming this thread. ( Gets those time to time.)