Poverty the Root of All Evils
Author: Morrison
As the margin of the rich and the poor widens, global poverty to day has increased, the middle class cannot catch up with the rich and slid back among the poor causing the numbers of the poor to rise up, poverty in today's global village has become the root cause of all evils, because it has power and the ability to make people compromise their once held and respected moral values, cultures and religious beliefs, poverty has created a new race of people with common marks of frustrations, loss of hope, prospects and value for life.
Loss of the meaning of life, purpose of living something to live for and disillusionments about morality because the criminals live better, poverty which knows no boarder has pushed societies to loose human hearts and compassion for others, if one is hungry, stealing, prostitution will be an opted for solution, life becomes the survival of the fittest, in order to survive people engage in crime of all sorts including fraud, money laundering drug trafficking, sex trade and corruption .
The saying an hungry man is an angry man has always been the true reflection of what mankind is capable of once the biological and basic need for food ,water ,shelter and other basic necessities if not attended to has bred waves of evil in the minds and hearts of the people.
The fact is that it is poverty and greed that breeds corruption, so it goes without saying that where poverty is alleviated, corrupt practices would be minimal or alleviated as well ( for corruption can never be eradicated and has not been eradicated anywhere in the world ) in other words poverty is a cause of corruption while corruption is the consequence of poverty and loss of moral values ,the high levels of poverty have resulted in many social problems including street kids, these kids are automatically exposed to various types of risks and hazards depending on the the socio-economic characteristics of the neighborhoods in which street are located all these is a result of poverty.
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