Poverty is Relative

Income Gap’s Critical Role in the Poverty Issue

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.211220.080How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Poverty; income gap; relative; Capitalist system; Socialized production

Abstract

Because of poverty, 854 million people are undernourished, and more people lack education and medical treatment. As a result, the poverty issue is a significant obstacle to the development of human society. This article argues that only by regarding poverty as a reflection of people’s low economic status can one realizes the nature of poverty. In other words, poverty is relative that depends on the income gap between the rich and the poor. Therefore, narrowing the income gap should be the priority of anti-poverty activities. Additionally, the capitalist system ought to change in order to eliminate the fortune disparity as it is the major reason that leads to the nowadays situation. These results shed light for establishing more effective anti-poverty movements that can eliminate the poverty issue once and for all.

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© 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

Open Access

This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Boyang Gao
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/12/24
TI  - Poverty is Relative
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 4th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 458
EP  - 462
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211220.080
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.211220.080
ID  - Gao2021
ER  -