John Kenneth Galbraith: Article Analysis

Generally, poverty means when an individual, family or community does not have enough, clothing, money or “minimum necessary for decency” (Galbraith, 2013). According to John Kenneth Galbraith's essay, "The Position of Poverty", there are two types of poverty, case poverty, and insular poverty. Case poverty illustrates cases where an individual or family is poor due to aspects related to him/her circumstances such as “mental deficiency, bad health, inability to the discipline of industrial life, uncontrollable procreation, alcohol, and some educational barriers” (Galbraith,2013). On the contrary, insular poverty is when poverty affects everyone or about everyone in the community due to " race, which acts to locate people by their color rather than by the proximity to employment, poor educational facilities,
I agree with this thought because it explains a reasonable and no-prejudice belief for individuals who wants to help the poor people and inviting them to discover their talents and put them to use them to improve their community and their own well-being. Besides, it is also correct to believe that there will be always needy people in this world no matter if we help them or not and sometimes their deprived situation is not either their fault or nor link with the environmental factors. From the moral responsibility that Bible teaches us , the affluent citizen has the duty to support the poor people because as Moses and Jesus stated that “there will always be poor among us" (Engelbrecht,2009 )Thus, while the poverty is inevitable, as children of God, God expects from us to be generous to the poor people and God will bless us in all our