In developing countries 1300 million people live below the poverty line, more than 100 million people live in these conditions in industrialized countries and 120 million in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Although the reasons why so many people living in poverty are complex, it is said that the main causes are the inequalities in the distribution of resources, services and power and the inability of many people to access knowledge. Arturo Escobar, in his book "The Invention of the Third World", tells of an unjust international economic system, he argues that the causes of poverty in developing countries must be sought outside the Third World.
Although poor people have fewer opportunities, this does not mean they can not overcome poverty alone, but they refuse that opportunity. The main obstacle to the poor is their mentality, as has been seen many times in society, some people that without any means get to be very successful and wealthy , but their mentality is different from that of those people who are still poor. If I am poor and I am unhappy with my situation it makes sense to do something to try to change it and not wait for other people to help me, but many poor blame their failures and lack of initiative to others and their situation. We often hear "I'm poor, I have no money, the government must help me, injustice is everywhere blablabla." Some clear examples of this are the story "We're very poor" by Juan Rulfo, which shows how a family blames the poverty of their misfortunes, and the book of Emile Zola's The Tavern, where a woman is about to get of poverty twice but her thinking stops her.
Japan is the third world economy, but only 20% of its land is arable, has no natural resources and is often hit by hurricanes, tsunamis and earthquakes. In Latin America people live in countries rich in resources and fertile soils, but they managed to be poor and blame the United States and capitalism. This seems to fit what T. Harv Eker said "Rich people focus on opportunities, poor people focus on obstacles". That is why most of the time people stay rich richer and the poor stay poor, the rich people are optimistic, if they want something they look for ways to have it and constantly learn and grow, poor people are pessimistic and the thought "No, I can't do" often leads to failure because they do not believe in themselves.
Another problem is the hatred between classes. It is very common to hear "the rich rob the poor" or "to be rich you have to be false" and that's another difference between rich and poor, rich people admire other rich and successful, the poor are resent the success of the rich. Robert Kiyosaki said the poor father will teach your child to be rich is to be born rich and wealthy father will teach his son to be rich or poor is something you can learn, have often seen cases of people born a poor family and manage to become very rich.
Finally, it boils down to the rich think "I do my life" and the poor think "This is the life I had to live." Poverty is a massive problem worldwide, whether it is important that governments support the poor, is an impossible situation to resolve if poor people do not help themselves. This leads many people to wonder if social inequality is the fault of the system or is it really is a personal responsibility.
