Tuesday, February 05, 2008

What's the Opposite of Poverty?

I noticed an interesting tee shirt in Peru. It didn't hurt that the teaser was emblazoned across the pert breasts of an attractive young woman, but the message itself was pretty thought provoking. "The opposite of poverty is not wealth. The opposite of poverty is enough."

This makes sense. The opposite of poverty is not poverty. Poverty = not enough; therefore, not poverty = enough.

What would be the opposite of wealth then? "Not wealth" would encompass all socioeconomic states other than wealth and would include both enough and less than enough.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

could have done without the first part of the second sentence dude.