What is Poverty?

Is it going to bed at night hungry? Is it not being able to afford medical care? Is it being cold during the winter? Not being able to drink your well water? Is it not having a nice car or nice shoes? What makes poverty so poor or what attributes make up poverty? Dirt floors, outhouses, and chickens running under the bed is not poverty. In fact, besides hunger and poor health, a lack of aspiration, a degraded environment, and ethnocentrism are the main propionates of poverty. Some dumb shit in the suburbs might dare to think (no pun intended) that my earlier life was submerged in what is classically considered poverty but they did not see or hear what went on down the holler or on top of the mountains. Take this opportunity to go check out my picture of the strip mine behind my first school. What type of poverty do you think that alleviates? Can you really make yourself believe that money will cure this disease called poverty? (If I could write better I would not ask so many rhetorical questions.)