Poverty
One of the things that amazes me is that I have friends who are at various income levels and that some of my friends make millions of dollars a year and some are living what would be considered sub-poverty level lives based on their incomes. While income scenarios do come into mind at times I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about the person’s pocketbook and instead think about their personal wellbeing.
One of the things I want to ask readers of this blog is this: Do you find yourself distracted by poverty, do you ignore it, or do you see poverty as an opportunity for growth in the world around you?
This blog is about my personal learnings on personal finance. Its personal by definition as a blog and its personal because its about finance. Poverty is a word used to describe a financial state but it doesn’t indicate an emotional state (necessarily) and I think that to a certain degree someone who is frugal with a good income and someone who is frugal because they are very limited by their income would be more suited to hanging out than people with similar incomes with radically different expenditure levels.
The other side of poverty is that it does impact some people harder than others - and in those cases what can you and I do to help? Do we help in volunteer projects that educate people about personal finance? What about excellent humanitarian projects like PlayPumps.org?
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