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What is poverty

In the article 'what is poverty' Theodore Dalrymple compares poverty conditions in several

nations worldwide. The author concerns himself so much in England, whereby he refers to it

as welfare nations while explaining the country's residents' effort in exploiting welfare

systems, which significantly plays a critical role in eradicating poverty. Theodore Dalrymple

argues that even if poor individuals exist among citizens, the lower class cannot be referred to

as poor today as it was in the traditional way ( Theodore ). He also implies that the real

definition of poverty has been redefined after industrial development, which has altered the

traditional definition of poverty. He affirms that the government is responsible for providing

basic needs to the marginalized group at no cost.

In his argument, he explains why the English poor live a shorter and less healthy lifespan

as compared to rich individuals resulting from hard living conditions and generations of

inferior nourishment. Even though he affirms that the health conditions are not determined by

the individual economic status but is because of the increased proportion of cigarette

consumption amongst poor people, which accounts for about half the difference in the life

anticipation between poor and richer classes in England. In his case, he compares England's

poverty issues with Africa, in which it is discovered the two nations are completely different.

This is because the term poverty in England is all about soul, whereas in Africa, it is about

where individuals work to earn a living.

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I agree with Theodore Dalrymple's argument pertaining to poverty perception. He keenly

and attentively observed welfare states and how their poverty is suckled into disputation.

Besides, I sense that being poor plays critical role in any social order, since it smashes out

the scales and teaches respectable ethics since every family has a lower point on it. However,

the universal truth is that entitlement's feeling restricts enlightenment which is displayed in

the idea that enlightenment cannot be given, but it can be achieved. This means that the

tendency of the lower-class individuals in England to be provided with all basic needs by the

government hinders them from working hard since being given is not the same as working for

something (Middlemiss & Lucie n.p). In this case, poor individuals may fail to understand the

effort incurred or sacrifice made to earn that thing because they perceive it as an entitlement.

To sum up, Theodore's article 'what is poverty' has shown an ethical egotism in which an

inflated sense of one's significance is being conceited (Caramagno & Thomas n.p). In this

case, it can be recognized that the system of welfare leads to no moral judgment, more also in

allocating economic rewards. Besides those individuals from India, they perceive the

population's spiritual impoverishment to be worse than in their own nation. In this case, the

wealth that makes individuals effortless to acquire basic needs is supposed to libeliberate, not

imprisoning. Such life creates a meaningless life whereby individuals have nothing to fear,

nothing to optimize for, and nothing to acquire or lose, becoming a life emptied of

denotation.
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References

  https://www.city-journal.org/html/what-poverty-11845.html 

Caramagno, Thomas C. "1 “I owned to great egotism”." The Flight of the Mind. University of

California Press, 2020. 6-32.

Middlemiss, Lucie. "A critical analysis of the new politics of fuel poverty in

England." Critical Social Policy 37.3 (2017): 425-443.