Karl Marx said there was no such thing as poverty, and of course he was right. People do not have a relationship with things, other than perhaps possessions (not property) like the shirt on your back. There are no signs pointing down from the heavens that someone owns this office building or factory or mine or IP rights to a 1927 film or book. People have relationships with one another. There is an idle class of heirs and there is a working class. Being broke is in the context of these social relations. Pointing to material items like federal reserve notes in a bank under some account number is a fetishism ignoring what is obvious, these basic relations between classes - heirs and workers.
Do you have a relationship with your teeth, gut or brain? Because poverty tend to be bad for your physical and mental health.
There is a large gap in life expectancy between the richest and the poorest, not to mention the quality of that life. Poverty is not just a deprivation of possessions, it is a deprivation of housing, education, employment and health care. Increasingly it is a deprivation of clean air, water, healthy food and physical safety.
Poverty is a ruinous gravity well that chews you up and spits you out as a twisted shadow. It traps people in vicious cycles that can last for generations. You can escape it alive, but you can't escape it unscathed.
Are there seriously people who believe this bullshit? You think everybody who works only works for "heirs", and if there were no heirs, nobody would have to work?
If nobody would work, billions of people would starve within weeks. The only relationship to other people that would prolong ones life would perhaps the ability to eat some of your peers.
> Are there seriously people who believe this bullshit? You think everybody who works only works for "heirs", and if there were no heirs, nobody would have to work?
Well that does sound like "bullshit" as you put it, but it bears no relation to what I said.
"There is an idle class of heirs and there is a working class. Being broke is in the context of these social relations." - that sounds as if you believe people who are "heirs" exploit the people who are not.
