Reading 10: Functions Of Poverty

Since poor need to work with low wages, they will provide grants to various economic activities that will benefit the rich.

Support for innovation in medical practice as a patient in education research hospital, experimental guinea pig

Provide income for too old / incompatible people to attract doctors, lawyers, teachers, and wealthier customers

Poor people provide alternative participation to other people in their free sexual behavior, alcohol intoxication behavior and anesthesia

When HNWI adopts or creates culture for them, the poor also play a direct cultural role.

The ultimate cause of poverty is the culture of poverty. According to Proverbs 10:15, "the destruction of the poor is their poverty." Poverty produces poverty and its cycle is not easily broken. People growing in poor culture lack nutrition and education, so they can succeed in the future. The government should not take full responsibility to take care of the poor, but it must seriously take the rumor of protecting the words of Levi and the poor and resisting oppression. The government should not be responsible for the responsibilities given by God to protect the poor from injustice. If the government does not do this, or if repression comes from the government itself, Christians must use their prophetic voice to oppose government abuse of power and abuse.

According to sociologists, they have various theories of poverty. In the structural function theory of poverty, poverty explains poverty and inequality as a concrete function of society as motivating people upwardly, and every object of society has purpose and function. On the other hand, the theory of poverty conflict involves proletariat and bourgeoisie, disparity of wealth, and conflict that causes change. One of the causes of the most rooted poverty in the world is social inequality. This arises from the cultural concept of the relative values ​​of different gender, race, ethnic group, social class. The role due to inequality is to classify individuals into different social categories at birth, usually based on religious, racial, or "racial" characteristics (poverty).

Inequality and poverty are distinguished but related concepts. Poverty means that individuals do not have sufficient resources to function at socially acceptable levels (Sen 1999). Citizen's poverty level is usually measured as a percentage of the population below income or wealth to represent the lowest level required for personal prosperity below the benchmark. In the United States, poverty thresholds were determined based on the cost of general food baskets, although nutritious value was high in the 1960s. Initial threshold is adjusted according to inflation, but living expenses vary by city and state, but they are equally applied across the country (Stiglitz 2013). The poverty rate in the US declined from about 22% in the early 1960s to 11% in the mid 1970s and further declined from 11% to 15% according to the economic situation (Census 2017b).