Information channels are blocked so that the poor continue to be poor

REVIEW: You are poor because your parents are poor. Occlusion of information channels lifted poor people out of poverty

I am a very far-sighted person who has always been planning for life. To prevent the future from going down the street, I read "The Essence of Poverty" and wondered what it means to be poor. So even after I was poor enough to pick up rubbish, I knew what went wrong with myself. This book is the result of a survey conducted by two economic professors Abigat Netar and Esther DeFloe at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for 15 years in the poorest regions of the five continents. What they seek is the same as me - how did poverty come from?

One of the conclusions they reached after conducting a number of surveys was that you were poor because your parents were poor.

It is beyond question that the richer children are richer and the poorer children are poorer. But the problem is not the accumulation of wealth of two generations, but the rich have enough money to seize every opportunity for growing children. If two children with the same qualifications, one born in the rich, one in the poor home. Both children do not like reading, and poor children may be sent to work after they have not finished their primary school because their parents can not see the return on their investment in education. However, the children of rich people are different. He continues to receive education and his parents help hard. Bad may also have other gifts, dozens of failed attempts, may be able to dig out the child good at things, then he has a high probability of success. Those talented, poor children who might otherwise have the potential to become bankers or musicians may have prematurely become workers and small shopkeepers due to their lack of opportunities to grow their potential.

This is only one of the factors that led to poverty. Normal and healthy people have many opportunities in society to get out of poverty, such as staying healthy and preventing disease (sickness is a devastating blow to the poor) and getting a job. Why did not the poor succeed? The two authors visited many African countries to find out how the poorest people in the world lived. They found that in the 50 countries with the highest number of the global poor, the average poverty line was only 99 cents per person per day. If a person has only this amount of money per day, he spends most of his money on food, which means that the poor have limited access to information - newspapers, television and books are expensive.

The poor may know nothing about certain information, such as taking a vaccine to keep the child from measles, buying health insurance so that you are not desperate when you are sick, but that information may not exist in the poor world.

Information channels are blocked and the poor are deprived of their chances of getting out of poverty. They do not know the importance of basic education, prematurely dropping children out of school and giving the second generation the chance of success. They do not know the need to add disinfectants to water to keep their children from suffering malaria. Not only does treatment of malaria cost money, it can even permanently damage the child's cognitive abilities, reducing the probability of his success in the future. In fact, spending on basic education and preventive measures will bring about more long-term income. However, lack of information makes people have shortsightedness and it seems even more important to save money in their hands.

Saving money for the poor is simply a disaster. The poor can accumulate a fortune by reducing their daily expenses, storing small amounts of cash. But for the poor, a cup of tea may save 5 cents, but this requires self-control. The poor need to fight their own innermost feelings to put 5 cents in their teeth in the bank, which is easy for the rich, without having to drink a cup of tea to save a lot of money.

This means that the more money people are, the easier it is to do the right thing. Some poor people have failed, not because they have poor self-control ability, but for the sake of immediate enjoyment. Rather, poor people need to constantly apply this self-control capability and the probability of failure is too high. While the rich live in a sterile tap water society, enjoying compulsory education and forcing them to buy social security, they can do the right thing without using self-control. It sounds desperate, as if the world of the poor is full of traps.

This is real.

Society is not friendly to the poor, banks do not like the poor. If you want to do pen business, as long as the cost of 100 dollars, want to bank loans. Banks may need staff to investigate the lender's background and go through the formalities, costing them significantly more than the $ 100 interest in manpower. In fact, it is easier to loan $ 1 million than $ 100, but which bank will lend $ 1 million to the poor? Even poor people who save money are harder than others. If you keep a toothbrush and save $ 1 a week, you find it necessary to open an account The $ 2 fee does not feel the world's thick malice toward the poor?

Yes, it is so sinister. It is just too difficult for the poorest people to get out of poverty. This is the essence of poverty. The poorer the poorer it is, the harder it is for them to get rich. However, there is no need to be completely desperate. After the investigation, the two authors also gave a way out of poverty. Some methods have been successful in many parts of the world. If you are a visionary like me, take a look at this book.