reflection on poverty(megen's)

original question: what are your thoughts about poverty? does being rich necessarily mean happiness?

reflection: Whenever I hear the word 'poverty', I always will think of those scenarios I see on the newspaper about old people or people with disabilities. Poverty is a word that is not often heard of in Singapore, however replaced with 'bankruptcy', etc.
Poverty would always be associated with beggars along the streets, or some circle of swindlers that use children to cheat people out of their money if they sympathize with the children. The media will always blow these matters up, but they would never focus on the real life situations of POVERTY.
Poverty should be acknowledged by other people who classified as more 'privileged'.
We always take things for granted, and if the media would focus more on the less dramatized part of poverty, many people would start to realise that poverty is an actual real life issue happening around them.
And no, being rich doesn't necessarily mean happiness. You may be rich, but like they say,'money cannot buy you happiness', no matter the amount of jewelry or clothes you have, they can make up for intimacy or any other forms of relationships.