Living in a very poor country and having seen Egypt (Cairo), I shrug off when US people talk about poverty.
There is poverty as finding hardship in life and there is fighting for survival in a literal sense. Poverty in the US is hardship of life. The US still has accessible infrastructure and job market to help an average person get on his feet.
Also, I find poverty to be related to your parents. If your parents are poor and then just go out of their way to have 6 children, well, their output is going to be divided by 6 and so you'll be shit poor.
Poverty is a byproduct of culture and nature. Stupid religious cultures (as well as nature) will push poor people to multiply to guarantee survival. Since the probability of survival of their offspring is weak, it might help to have lots of them.
This makes matter worse (lots of poor people themselves multiplying). Rich people having little offspring seem to help and accentuate the problem (make the few rich people fewer and the lot of poor more).
There is poverty as finding hardship in life and there is fighting for survival in a literal sense. Poverty in the US is hardship of life. The US still has accessible infrastructure and job market to help an average person get on his feet.
Also, I find poverty to be related to your parents. If your parents are poor and then just go out of their way to have 6 children, well, their output is going to be divided by 6 and so you'll be shit poor.
Poverty is a byproduct of culture and nature. Stupid religious cultures (as well as nature) will push poor people to multiply to guarantee survival. Since the probability of survival of their offspring is weak, it might help to have lots of them.
This makes matter worse (lots of poor people themselves multiplying). Rich people having little offspring seem to help and accentuate the problem (make the few rich people fewer and the lot of poor more).