Poverty restricts you not to think outside the box and have a strive for making it in life. Poor people's biggest disadvantage is that their only purpose in life is to make ends meet and that takes most of their time that they could otherwise spend in making their society and their surrounding a better place. Being poor means you have no time or means available to do the things you really want to. Making it a better place by changing policies and enriching themselves and their society culturally by writing songs and making dances for example. Poverty is a very deep subject that is close to me because I have seen first hand what it feels like coming from a third world country. People should distinguish between poverty and laziness. People that are poor because they are lazy and dont want to work to afford a place to live and are homeless is a completely different subject then people that are poor because the society has thrown them away because they are a disadvantaged, a minority, are incapable to work or politicians don't care about them is truly the poverty we should be looking at.