Disadvantage Of Poverty

The concept of poverty is not a new one. But poverty never received any more attention than let us say crime in society. People loathed both but never hoped to completely get rid of such social realities. In Hindu mythologies criminals could turn into saints and devotees while poor, with the blessing of god or through some sort of dramatic turn in fate, could become aristocrats even king. So, poverty was thought to be a function of fate, and to some extent, reducible through charity. Since there were very few people then in the middle rungs of the society (equivalent to today’s middle class) societies in most part of the world constituted of the ruling class (kings, nobles, aristocracy) and the poor mass of people engaged in different kinds.