What is poverty nowadays?

(posted originally on Bubblews)

People tend to say, to write on social media: "I'm poor". But what does that mean, really?

Well, you obviously have access to a computer and the internet. You post about photograph, about selfies with your cellphone, sometimes even about travelling. Yeah, you probably backpack all over Europe or America and you consider yourself "poor" and even your own country considers yourself one of the poor in the statistics that alarm so many people.

But what does our poverty really mean? Do YOU feel poor, or do you just say you are not to offend other people who also think they are?

What is really poverty in Eastern Europe and North America? Are we all just spoilt Brats?