Is Poverty a Choice?

"The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination." Poverty is a state of being, a mindset. Its is where you unconsciously say to yourself, I am poor, I am without, I am less, because I have less. This is no one's fault, it is only the situation that we as a money-oriented society have put ourselves in. Money equals opportunity which equals freedom and happiness. Without money, you find yourself in the cycle we call poverty. The lack of opportunities, less money, less freedom and consequently, unhappiness.  So as the great Alan Watts says, we need some imagination, we need to change the way we think about life and the role of money in life and we will change poverty. The impoverished state would change into a state of losing unnecessary attachments, a buddist mindset of sorts. Life is what you make of it some say.