Why are we poor?
This is in response to Miraz Ahmed's opinion on "Why are we poor?". The last sentence "Is there anyone to help us?" attracted me most. We the young generation need to change the concept of help from others and dependency. Why should we be dependent on others to change our fate rather than trying ourselves? Is there really any positive help waiting out there for us to alleviate poverty or for our development? I guess no, because for a couple of centuries we have been fighting against poverty and we are spending billions of dollars of foreign aid but hardly have we seen the effects on our fate, except our political leaders' promises and the ruling party's verbal achievements. Corruption, black money, muscle power have been dominant and have become part of our existence , these are the negative components of our development too.
You have very rightly mentioned about the vicious cycle of our poverty, so it is we, the young generation, who have to take the responsibility to break this cycle. I think we had been dependent on others too much, so from now on we should try to be self conscious and self-dependent to achieve our goals ( though it is hard to do so when there are countless obstacles around us).
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