If you are not a socialist at age of 20, you have no heart. If you are not a capitalist at 40, you have no brain. We often hear young people with socialist heart bragging about the richness of poverty. The idealist types can be heard saying they do not possess any material desire. They are well-off with their limited needs. But all this is easier said than done. We live in the age of materialism where money drives 99% of the things in life. Your place in the society, and family is governed by Money.
One who gives away his material desire should either become Mahatma or be ready to accept his fate as no-one.
The point to note here is the problem of poverty does not stop at the transition from BPL to APL. It goes beyond this and penetrates the boundaries of contentment and happiness. The feeling of relative deprivation is considered much severe than absolute deprivation. To say I do not wish to be rich suits only when you have earned enough in the life to be called rich. Or else somewhere we need to set our limits on what we want/desire/expect from our lives.
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