Islam and Ra

[jafar]

Poverty is a different issue, there are:
A. people who choose to be in poverty / who choose he/she actually lacks nothing.
B. people who feel trapped in poverty / who feel he/she always lacking.
C. people who has the need to feel superior in wealth compared to other people.
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I would say those in A are not poor, B is poverty and C is greed. I disagree that B and C are the same. I was poor years ago yet at some point I came to have enough and became satisfied with my level of abundance. We each have a different balance of red-ray that we consider to be balanced for ourselves.

What we can solve now in our current post-scarcity society is B. What bugles my mind is not that STS wants the status-quo, it's the number of people that let themselves fall for C greed (based on STS teachings). So in that sense we are not really victims, those falling for greed in one incarnation, probably suffers poverty in the next and on it goes.
But at the end of the day, it's still on us. People can feel the truth of this in their heart and if they chose greed nonetheless well that just opens the door even more for STS to come teach and we end up with how society was in the not too distant past. It's getting better now, but it could go much faster.

Bhutan did proposed a new metrics for 'well being', from GDP/Capita (commonly used today) to something called 'happiness index'.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_National_Happiness

And it seems you have different definition for 'poverty', called Red-Ray Balance.

If we put Jon Jandai as case study, his personal story goes something like this.

1. I was living in a village and people told me that I'm poor.
2. In order to become 'not poor' they told me I need to find work in the city to earn some money.
3. I'm working in Bangkok, I earn much money, I can buy many things, but I'm not happy.
4. I decided to return back to the village.
5. In the village I'm happy, I'm living a simple life which does not require many things, I don't earn much money but I'm happy, if people now tell me that I'm poor or in poverty, then so be it. I'm happy and that's what matter.

Jon Jandai: Life is easy. Why do we make it so hard?
https://youtu.be/21j_OCNLuYg

"Poverty" doesn't translate directly to less well-being or less happiness.
Well being and happiness is more of a 'mind set', when one need less it will be easier for one to become happy.
When one need more it will be harder for one to become happy.
Both are choice of life, there's no good and bad, there's only consequences...