Poverty is entirely in the mind!!

I have had not much luck with donations! Everyone I give money to turns out to be lying and I have never been able to help any situation with money (Official charity donations excluded for now).

I realise this week that the reason for this is that there is no such thing as poverty!

I read an article about some homeless people complaining about how sad their lives are. The thing is I was living exactly the same life as them but through choice because it is what I wanted. The only difference was that I had a job and plenty of money, it is just I don't appreciate "higher" standards of living. Shopping is boring and owning things a drag. I am always reminded when I buy something that I had survived upto that point without it, so its presence now means that I must be in greater need. What the homeless people were seeing as bad, I was seeing as good.

In the West even the worst off person is not in poverty. But in reality there are very few people who need die from starvation. If the country falls into war, and the crops fail then maybe - but that is not "poverty" that is just physical reality and necessity. As long as there is some food around, some shelter from severe weather and some means of avoiding the onset of illness then what more do we need? The animals survive!

So if people complain and look in need the vastly more likely chance is that it is their state of mind which is at fault and not their actual circumstance. So talk to them and find out the real problem - do not give them any physical assistance (and that goes for sex as well I have found).