Summary Response to Article “Poverty Cost Lives”
Owen Jones's article Poverty Cost Lives – and The Left Should Not Be Afraid to Say It (New York: The Guardian, 2022) explain the controversial issue for centuries about poverty which is a matter of life and death for many people that caused by bad government policies. He said that based on new research conducted by the Office for National Statistics, the avoidable deaths contributed to four in ten male deaths in England's poorest community (around 17.8%) and for women are about 26.7% and 11.9%, respectively. Let us take the example of Covid disease. They indeed can't choose whom they will attach, both from the rich and poor classes.
However, in this case, people in the lower class have a very high potential to deal with the deadly consequence; death because of our economic system. I can say this statement because, as we know, the lower class people do not get proper health facilities and have been malnourished since they were born. All of these things are rooted in one problem issue; how bad the economic system of our government is.
I agree that this matter was known caused by the models of our economic models for ages;
they take wealth produced by the efforts of millions of people and then hand much of it to a tiny elite politician. This reality even was labeled "social murders" by Friedrich Engels in 1845. Besides that, this label got rejected and tagged as something disrespectful by one of England's top political classes. They indeed knew about this matter. They also consciously impose a state of poverty on most of the people they are meant to serve, which will lead to premature death. Of course, this is a deniable reality; this is a truth that has been well known for centuries, and many people find it difficult to deny it because of the political power above them.