Poverty, how do you see it? define it?

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Currently poverty is one of the main worldwide issue. And it is also a main issue for my local people as well, in my city called Makassar, South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Yesterday I received a question from one the community activist, asked ?what should we do?? I gave him a quiet long answer, but seems like my answer is not satisfy his mind. We were discussing about the situation of our city, where the poverty is one of main problem, competing with the progress of malls and rich houses developments. My answer was, poverty is very complicated issue, its not only about numbers and statistics. But it is also rooted deepdown in a long process of how people define their lives and see them selves from generation to generation. For example, a people who living in a relatively rich soils tends to move slower and think slower than those who lives in quiet cold places on earth. So since we have anything that we need available by the nature, we do not take any other way to increase our human potencials. And at the certain era we developed, what I called as ?unfortunate culture.? This long list of ?unfortunate culture? (corruption,not respecting the time, etc) are worsten by the attitute of the political leaders. Democracy is there, procedurally but the people let themselves to be bought by money, and this is also create the cyrcle of poverty regenerations. So, I would like to hear your opinion about poverty. How do you define it, see it. Do you believe that poverty would be really a history of our civilization? Thnak you.