Poverty change people

[Zoomic]

If a person who was once financially buoyant suddenly becomes poor, a lot of things will change about him, ranging from his mindset to his physical looks. Poverty is just like an ailment,  it will definitely reflect on your general appearance with time. Nobody is happy being poor. Being poor means you will have to worry every day over things you do not have and responsibilities you are unable to meet.  A poor man becomes unnecessarily humble even when his rights are being violated. It is like they broke a wing, hence the inability to fly as they should.

If you are opportune to meet up with your basic financial responsibilities without much stress, then you should be thankful and do well also to step up your game so you do not by any chance fall below your standard because it is not funny at all out there.

[Gozie51]

...a caring and loving guy before is now always bittered, the best I can do, which I did was to introduce them to Bitcoin and cryptocurrency.
Poverty is a disease that changes people.

Sure there is a way that some people can behave when they don't have money, it is normal and understandable because they say an hungry man is a angry man.

It is a good thing that you have introduced them to bitcoin and crypto, perhaps they can tap into it and support their selves by investing according to what you have shown them. But one thing about the people who are seen as poor, they don't want to see opportunity in certain things, they always blame government and want government to provide their needs even though it is understandable that government should provide certain support for personal and economic growth. The poor has a mentality that they always criticize and don't see positivity in some innovation, so they might still be skeptical about the opportunities you have shown them in bitcoin only if they see you are earning through it. They doubt alot on opportunities locked in bitcoin, so you still need to guide and encourage your friends.

[coolcoinz]

Oh yeah, I know what you're talking about OP. I used to have fun with my friends when we were in our 20s and we felt no pressure. All we did was study, play computer games, drink, go to parties...
Then we all went our separate ways and faced our problems. Some of us had kids, some had better jobs, while others had to look for work abroad. Some bought houses, some stayed with their parents. Fast forward 10 years and I agree that the poor became bitter. They shut down, they no longer enjoy life like those of us who had more money. They relive their younger years when they had no problems and did not care about money, but now they can't do without.

A great example of this is how girls used to look at us. None of us had cars, you could take a girl to a date and literally tell her that your father will drive you there and she didn't care, it was fine. Or you could just go for a walk and have fun. When you're in your 30s, you either have money, or you're going to feel rejected by society.

[Volimack]

Poverty changes people very badly makes people liars. Become helpless and hypocritical. Poverty can take people in any situation poor people cannot adequately meet their needs. The effects of poverty can affect a child as an adult which can lead to chronic illness and lack of education or ability to work. The impact of poverty is more than just missing a meal. Families struggle with chronic food insecurity hunger and malnutrition.

[o48o]

Poverty change people, I never thought as much until i came back from abroad.
I visited my old neighborhood while growing up to see some of my guys in the past, I observe that most of them have changed to something else, from their behavior to how they sees life, and to how bittered they are. Though we still get along well base on the kind of person I am, I don't even sees myself like the rich guy they take me for,  but I also feel their pain because life haven't been fair to them,  a caring and loving guy before is now always bittered, the best I can do, which I did was to introduce them to Bitcoin and cryptocurrency.
Poverty is a disease that changes people.

Well obviously it changes you, as it can physically change your brains as you don''t have access to healthy nutrition, you might not get enough sleep, too much work with a crap pay without decent worker rights. Or even worse you could lose your house.

You end up doing things that suck your self-respect. So no wonder you'll get bitter. And thing is, it might not even be your fault at all. You just need to to have born in a wrong place, wrong family, with wrong disabilities. Several third party things can go wrong that can wipe your safety net. People say that you can be rich no matter what your disabilities are. Yeah, sure, but that's not how getting rich work. You have to be part of right circumstances, and not everyone just can be rich. Capitalism needs poor people to work for the rich people in order to have rich people.

Bitcoin's goal is not to end poverty. It's just freedom to send value without permission from anyone. It isn't ending world hunger or guaranteed to make anyone wealthy.

[Dunamisx]

Poverty changes people very badly makes people liars. Become helpless and hypocritical. Poverty can take people in any situation poor people cannot adequately meet their needs. The effects of poverty can affect a child as an adult which can lead to chronic illness and lack of education or ability to work. The impact of poverty is more than just missing a meal. Families struggle with chronic food insecurity hunger and malnutrition.

Poverty should not be what will determine if we are good people or not, we can make our own personal determination on whom we want to become wether we have money or not, being faithful and sincere with whom we are is good enough, if others are not to be trusted doesn't mean that we should follow the same pattern with them of being untrustworthy from the way we live our life, we must be outstanding from others.

[Zlantann]

Such kinds of friends should be avoided because this bitterness could lead to something dangerous. Such friends can even want to steal from you or even harm you. Did you tell them that it was Bitcoin that made you wealthy? I hope you didn't introduce Bitcoin to these as a Ponzi scheme or a get-rich-quick scheme. Ensure they get the right information about Bitcoin before they invest to avoid blaming you in the future if the undesirable happens. You don't also force people to invest in Bitcoin, they should voluntarily decide to invest in the sector.

I don't accept the fact when you mentioned avoiding such friends if I may ask avoid them for what for security or safety purpose or scared if they will start begging for money always I don't understand,

Let me advise you, if you perceive that your close friend is jealous of you because you are financially stable than him, the best decision is to avoid the person. The heart of men is desperately wicked. Just research people who were killed by friends because of jealousy or envy. I just got this one titled: We killed our friend out of envy — 28-yr-old suspect. You should also understand that you can always assist your friend without having a physically close relationship. If your friend needs financial assistance, you can always render it if can afford it. But we might not hang out alone or sleep together alone, you just have to be security conscience.

first of all why will you make friend with a thief, we should not forget friends like this need our help and if we call ourself true friends it's best to help when am talking about help I don't mean feeding the person but there are other ways we can offer help in such situation,
and op should not make that mistake.

I don't know where you go on the notion that my friends are thieves, did you read it anywhere in my post? If you have read the original post you will know that the writer told a story of some of his friends that began to exhibit some negative attitudes because they think he is now financially better than them.

[Gozie51]

Poverty changes people very badly makes people liars. Become helpless and hypocritical. Poverty can take people in any situation poor people cannot adequately meet their needs. The effects of poverty can affect a child as an adult which can lead to chronic illness and lack of education or ability to work. The impact of poverty is more than just missing a meal. Families struggle with chronic food insecurity hunger and malnutrition.

Money is a strong contributor to the way we look and down to the children. Money can make an ugly child look very fine and adorable to look at even the skin will change because the child is well taken care of both in nutrition. Likewise a parent that is wealthy and a poor parent are not compared.

If you don't take care of your health you can fall sick faster because your body needs proper health check-up to cleanse infection of all types that can cause further health damage to the organs. Money is such a vital factor to healthy living.

[Bushdark]

Alot of things have changed about you even when you don't know that by yourself, people knows what they see in you, the most of what is happening from our minds is a physical expression that we take all over out faces that we don't know, that same kind of positive excitement is what gives us confidence in keeping moving in life, the poor ones never have such raised expectations like we do.

Poverty is something I don't always leik taking about because it is not supposed to exist at all. We are meant to be okay even though we are not rich based of my faculty. To be poor means we are poor and we can nit make fast decision that would help us to stay and keep having consistent profits. One of the way we can stay free from poverty is when we are utilizing our potential and using it to make money for ourselves. This is going to help us to become the real version of ourselves.

[Jegileman]

It is good that you introduced your friend to bitcoin and cryptocurrency. Poverty is a very bad disease that destruct human nature, personality and way of interacting with others. Your friends may just be feeling that you’re bigger than them now and won’t want to mingle with them more or do things with them like you always do together. Hopefully they find a means of more sustenance and fend for themselves to live a better life just like you are now. People say it brings out the real version of yourself but I still feel it all depends on your nature as a person.

[Churchillvv]

Many things contribute to the changes in people; poverty is no new thing that can change both the physical and mental health of a person. It can hinder one's growth and paralyze their thinking ability. Instead of finding a way to succeed, one can turn out to be a lout on the streets.
 
I guess your friends were still unfortunate to be in such a condition, but they can still make a better life from the bitcoin you introduced them to, but it has to be in a direction that they need right now. because you need to give a hungry man the fish first before you can now show him or her the river to catch his fish; thereby, energy is needed for him to start his own life.
 
The story line from @Hispo got me emotional. Life happens to everyone, and I pray it doesn't hit you in a bad way. If his friend could leave a note for him, that means he needs help immediately. I hope he gets help.

[Sanugarid]

Poverty change people, I never thought as much until i came back from abroad.
I visited my old neighborhood while growing up to see some of my guys in the past, I observe that most of them have changed to something else, from their behavior to how they sees life, and to how bittered they are. Though we still get along well base on the kind of person I am, I don't even sees myself like the rich guy they take me for,  but I also feel their pain because life haven't been fair to them,  a caring and loving guy before is now always bittered, the best I can do, which I did was to introduce them to Bitcoin and cryptocurrency.
Poverty is a disease that changes people.

You are right, we have also experienced this. Because my father is working in abroad and he is a sea man there, they think differently of my father when he comes home from abroad, we are not selfish people
and dad even often lends him money, dad was not a bad person to my mom's siblings but apart from this, he was the only person who was very jealous of my dad, dad even took him abroad so he could support him family but he became too greedy and wanted his salary to be higher than my father's. You have already been helped, but you want to get better because of envy. Maybe it's also because of the hardships of life, I also see my cousins ​​who almost eat with us because there was no food for them in those days.

[Hispo]

It is good that you introduced your friend to bitcoin and cryptocurrency. Poverty is a very bad disease that destruct human nature, personality and way of interacting with others. Your friends may just be feeling that you’re bigger than them now and won’t want to mingle with them more or do things with them like you always do together. Hopefully they find a means of more sustenance and fend for themselves to live a better life just like you are now. People say it brings out the real version of yourself but I still feel it all depends on your nature as a person.

I would have personally not introduced Bitcoin or Cryptocurrency in general to them, to be honest. It would have been better for him to start talking about it after giving some basic lesson of the most common kind of scams and fraudulent schemes one could find in this market, the reason in obvious.
Perhaps for people like you or I, who have already spend sometime wound here, it is pretty obvious what are the main characteristics of a scam, but for people who are in a desperate state and are uneducated about Bitcoin, it is easier for a scammer in social media or on internet in general to deceive them in order to take the little they have.

Do not misunderstand me though, Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies themselves can be a pretty good option to manage money and invest, but it can be a tool used by criminals to strip away the small savings of the least fortunate members of our society. It is just my opinion though, hopefully those friends of OP are more savvy than the average person and would never fall for a classic ponzi.

[yazher]

Those people who have no patience and do not aim for the rewards in the hereafter have changed because of poverty and some of them even become crooks and scammers just like the last time when I was asked to pay more than I should be by the taxi driver and the guy was friendly along the way when he talks with me and everything change when he asks for payment and I didn't bother to argue because it will lead to nothing anyway. In this world that we are living in, people have already changed and most of them are now unfair if you are lucky enough to find a genuine friend, then keep him well and be friends with him for the rest of your life.

[Dunamisx]

It is good that you introduced your friend to bitcoin and cryptocurrency. Poverty is a very bad disease that destruct human nature, personality and way of interacting with others. Your friends may just be feeling that you’re bigger than them now and won’t want to mingle with them more or do things with them like you always do together. Hopefully they find a means of more sustenance and fend for themselves to live a better life just like you are now. People say it brings out the real version of yourself but I still feel it all depends on your nature as a person.

You're right, we should atleast be considerate about others too by extending the same privilege and opportuinity we are getting to them in cryptocurrency, it may now be left on them to make their own decisions on wether to believe about it and adopt or keep on with the same way they have been living their lives without making attempts for a new opportunity, no body wants to be poor, but only a few are making the necessary steps to get out of poverty.

[Ravichnadra]

A very good question  I'm from India and I have come from below the poverty line. It does change a lot in terms of everything."Poverty weaves a harsh reality, altering lives in unseen ways. It shapes our struggles, limits dreams, and tests resilience. Yet, within its grasp, we find strength, unity, and unwavering hope, we know its weight, but we carry on, striving for change, and believing in brighter tomorrows. Poverty may mark us, but it will never define us."

[Justbillywitt]

There is nothing good about poverty and someone who is poor cannot be happy because there are things which should be done that won't be done. You can't help people around you when you are poor and you will live a substandard environment. Who will be happy seeing responsibilities you should do but because you are poor you can't do them, then tell me what will make you happy? But the truth is not everyone will be rich and their must be poor people in the land. The only thing is to make sure you step out of the poverty line.

[Y3shot]

There is nothing good about poverty and someone who is poor cannot be happy because there are things which should be done that won't be done. You can't help people around you when you are poor and you will live a substandard environment. Who will be happy seeing responsibilities you should do but because you are poor you can't do them, then tell me what will make you happy? But the truth is not everyone will be rich and their must be poor people in the land. The only thing is to make sure you step out of the poverty line.

Poverty is like a sickness,  it will make you feel so comfortable with your environment,  with the kind of life you live. Some people who are poor they don't even feel as if they are living terrible life, they manage life the way they see it. But when people who are poor have access to money they see the reason why it is important to have money,  because they realise that they have been living in bondage unknowingly to them .

[Mate2237]

Poverty is very bad but a society or community not everybody will becomes rich and get money some have to be poor and some have to get money so the society will balance well. If everyone is rich then who will sell for others to buy?  None, so to balance the community some have to poor and go to farm and fishing then the rich will buy them from the farmers and Fishermen. Those village guys even if you introduce Bitcoin to them they would do as if you have brought something like Ponzi Scheme to them so they might not even interested.

Their behavior is contrary to the city guys. Though dreams are also to the city oh buy their mentality always kept them in the village like that.

[Funke]

Poverty indeed changes people, it changes both the minds perception toward life and the physical appearance.

Poor people mostly depends daily on survival instincts , so they don't encourage themselves why?

Firstly, they believe that opportunities avail themselves to change lives, that makes them to wait on such opportunities.

Secondly, they beleive Government is solely for the provision of means of achievement and actualization of dreams through employment and empowerment schemes.

Most poor people have a careless state of mind, when you give them the chance of do something, they see it as an opportunity to get that one time enjoyment after many years or months.

So dear, the best way to get those your friends out of poverty is to pay for skill training for them. Because you cannot also keep them where they are, at least you are one of the opportunities they were expecting to salvage their situation.