“Education is one pathway out of poverty, but the road is only worth taking when combined with social justice.” Inequality is a problem in so many countries. It creates distance between people and locks people in their heritage. Bernhard Hare explains is journey and his fight against poverty in his essay “Poverty is a state of mind” from 2012. He is just one out of many, who has experienced poverty and the challenges it brings. Hare uses his own experiences and a lot of contrast to emphasize his thesis about poverty being a state of mind.
Hare himself was born into poverty, as he says in the very first lines. His parents were working, his father as a miner and his mother in a department store. He tells a lot about how tightknit the poor community was. How the men met at the pub, played domino and drank beer. Bernhard Hare grew up in a warm and open community, where there were no materialism, stealing and no barriers between the families: “Their lives depended on each other underground and they were as close as men can be.” The men are risking their lives in the mines, they are spending all of their time together and they are stuck with the same opportunities in the same social class. Hare has lived with those men in poverty; he has been with them and loved them. He has seen how loving and alive they were even though their opportunities were limited.
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