Poverty is a complex social issue with many interconnected causes. It arises from factors like unequal income distribution, lack of decent jobs, disproportionate population growth, and lack of social policies to support human development. Poverty persists when technological advances outpace societies' ability to access them, and when economic systems prioritize profits over people through practices like usury. True solutions require addressing the root systemic issues through policies that promote equitable access to resources, opportunities, and social mobility. Only a humanized political system with equality and justice at its core can achieve the long-awaited eradication of poverty.

1. POVERTY: RESULTS OF A POLITICAL MACHINE DEHUMANIZED
José Aniervson Souza dos Santos1
We can define poverty, in this article, starting from different philosophical principles, such
as: social lack, involving the basic necessities of life such as clothing, housing, healthcare, and food.
We can also assume that poverty constitutes the lack of economic resources, i.e.: lack of income,
not necessarily meaning a lack of money, but their levels of failure. We will use, however, to
address poverty in this article, the same as being mainly a Social Need. This includes so many other
things aside from education and information. We will use social relationships as a key to
understanding poverty, because it is beyond the economy (Wikipedia, 2012).
We are driven constantly to think of poverty as an immediate situation—that offering bread,
water, and money can end the problem. But it is not so simple. If simply redistributing capital were
the solution, poverty would not exist to the extent as we have it today. In addition to investment,
money, and working capital, it is important to think about the layout of Human Resources, as this is
essential so that they can produce results (Fischer, 2012).
Some events, called me by processes of global development, so that they also interfere
factors related to poverty, happen. The rapid urban development, the large industrial gear with its
recent technological advances; disproportionate population growth, scarcity of decent jobs and
decent, etc. some agents are promoters of social inequalities. Thus therefore producing poverty.
If we look at the issue of population growth, Fischer (2012) said, "especially in the lower
income strata, generates a burden that hampers capitalization to promote economic progress and
thus improve the welfare of the people." This gives us an idea of the technical inability to keep up
with these advances. Some social policies such as education and health care could perhaps help in
this "control" accelerated. Some scholars talk about sex education or social orientation as birth
control. This, however, does not answer the question of accelerated population growth. At least not
completely. Other factors, such as an equitable distribution of income must also be taken into
account in this discussion.
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Have Degrees in Biological Sciences from the Universidade de Pernambuco – UPE, Brazil and Postgraduate
Youth in the Contemporary World by Faculdade Jesuíta de Filosofia e Teologia – FAJE, Brazil. Social
movement activist and leader of youth organizations. Development Instructor at Humana People to People.

2. Focusing on opportunity over work as a means of access to income and a decrease in the
differences between the rich and poor, we see this aspect of the labor market beyond the financial
acquisition. The work is meant as social and personal empowerment, independence,
experimentation of community living, among other factors. So imagine this as a triggering factor of
poverty, lack of work and/or lack of opportunities. We could cite who contributed and/or contribute
to this factor unemployment technological revolution with its many advances. Thus, we think that
with the "globalization of the economy has generated unemployment that requires a new generation
of recycling and production opportunities" with us this reinforces the idea that "the migration to
new frontiers, in the same profession no longer exists" (Fischer, 2012). What draws attention to
within this bias is what Fischer says to "the lack of ability to produce such recycling causes poverty
increase (...) desperation increases insecurity, creating more spending for the survival of the well-be
still existing "then it (poverty) becomes the result of an interaction, or lack thereof, among some
socioeconomic factors, including employment opportunities (2012).
Poverty, therefore, is "a fact and feeling" says Salama and Destremau (1999). Indeed,
perhaps because it exists and is real. We can see traces of destructive hunger in many places around
the world, even in developed countries such as the United States, for example. This is a fact we
cannot deny. Poverty becomes a feeling, because often "under that border" - between fact and
feeling - "individuals and their families are classified as poor, whether they realize this situation, or
not". In turn, poverty causes inhumane situations like hunger, inequality and violence, for example.
It seems like an oddity to bring up violence when we are talking about poverty. But is it not
a Social context in which both intersect and are able to produce inequalities? Based on what it says
in Pellegrino, certain types of social crises are possible of giving rise to crime (1984). It is a fact
that poverty is a social crisis, evidenced by the socioeconomic implications already discussed in this
material, so it "becomes able to foster crime when it comes to damage by severe decay, the social
values that promote an identification between aggregative members of a community"
(PELLEGRINO, 1984). Thus, citing Pellegrino, we can characterize the social life in a way that is
able to stand the indices of disrespect and social misery that experience "must be irrigated and
enlivened by basic principles of justice, equity, legitimacy of power political, labor and respect for
the human person" (1984).
Maybe before what has been stated, it is possible to say that crime expresses a facet of
social distortion, in this case, it is poverty. This crime is submerged in that country, especially those
rated "developing", with the result being an attempt to claim identity as Pellegrino says, "by
committing his crime (the poor), you do not want any change in society, on the contrary, seeks to

3. identify imaginatively with their class enemy (...) actually, he wants to take the place of the
millionaire, usurping his status and privileges" (1984).
In contrast, an economic model that creates a social disparity between those who have
everything–the rich, and those who have nothing–the poor, creates an exclusionary system of
income distribution imposed within the countries known as wild capitalism (SALAMA;
DESTREMAU, 1999). The latter, however presents as usurper than the actual crime in the form in
which it is designed. If this is the case, crime is a distorted form of social protest, empowerment,
and self-identification; the structures of domination within unbridled capitalism are also ways that
criminalize social relationships (PELLEGRINO, 1984). Pellegrino exemplifies this: Theft from a
bank is a criminal act, and those who practice it are putting themselves outside the law, but the
owner of the bank, when practicing usury, charging high interest rates, which are able to stop
production. This commits a criminal act, without even paying the same price burglar(1984).
Money begets money, to those who possess it, while labor creates poverty for working -
when they can work. And to cap it all, arbitrary power, impunity triumphant, cupidity
unlimited, unbridled consumerism, all this on one side only - the owners of life. On the
other hand, the anonymous face of misery: million (individuals) (...) condemned to absolute
penury (PELLEGRINO, p. 9, 1984).
Consider that money is not isolated in their work, the way in which it actually ends up with
poverty, although it may solve the immediate consequences – hunger, is the claim that much more
than the absence of "bread and water" that are causing misery. If we think, hence in poverty as the
result of different systematic factors that were and/or are being corrupted throughout history you
can venture a plausible alternative that attempts to explain the causes, reasons, and consequences of
poverty today, as the growing power economic countries that are undergoing.
If it is, but poverty, social gear, then as a way of thinking makes it possible to be solved if
only the distribution of food is not able to reach the root of the problem? As Pellegrino said in its
brief on the study of Psychoanalysis Crime Brazilian between Rich and Poor "must defeat the will,
corruption, unworthiness, incompetence. We must end the recession, unemployment and wage
squeeze that kill the people from hunger" (1984).
Only when there is in fact social policies being effected in the form of Public Policy, when
the distribution of income to achieve equality with everyone, when technological advances not
excel the human capacity to possess them, when population growth grow in the same proportion
that social and other instruments when individuals no longer feel the need to assert themselves from

4. the usurpation of status and privileges of others we will have a political machine humanized and as
a consequence the long-awaited eradication of poverty.

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