What Does It Really Mean to Be Poor? And Where Does God Stand in This Chain?

Poverty means being a person who needs something.
Today, when we see someone begging for money on the street, or someone working for minimum wage and struggling to pay their rent, we call them “poor.”
But there are many kinds of poverty.
Now I will explain poverty layer by layer.

The Layers of Poverty

0 — God
1 — the rich man
2 — the white-collar senior executive
3 — the middle class
4 — the destitute.

Let’s look at examples of the poverty issues of these four groups, from bottom to top.

Level 4: The Destitute

This person has not only no money, but nothing at all.
They wander around in misery.
If someone gives them bread, they eat; if not, they remain hungry and exposed.
They live in shacks, under bridges, or beneath the awnings of certain buildings.
They have no regular food and no shelter.
This person is poor in food and shelter.

Level 3: The Middle Class

We can define the middle class as a community of people who, in some way, can reach food and shelter regularly.
At this level, you can also include unemployed people between the ages of 18 and 45 who still live with their parents.
These people can access their most basic needs, even if at a very low quality.

They have a bed to sleep in, a roof over their heads, and a warm bowl of soup for dinner.
But they have no money for anything more.
They burn with longing for the second level.
That’s why they want to get a good job and become white-collar.

Level 2: White-Collar Senior Executives

At this level, you see people who are the right hand of big bosses.
Most of the time, they are extremely hardworking and intelligent people.
By selling these qualities, they manage to live in a good home and eat good meals every day.
They wear branded clothes, and as bonuses they are gifted luxury cars.
But they, too, are still poor.

They know that the moment they stop making money for the boss, they will be thrown out the door.
This does not mean they will immediately lose their homes or the privilege of eating as much as they want.
Yet it still causes them to fall behind all the white-collar colleagues they have competed with and surpassed, and to drift closer to the third level—the middle class.

The second level is an endless race.
That is why they constantly fall into depression and spend the money they earn on treating that depression.
In the residences where they lie on soft beds with spotless sheets, overlooking the entire city, they live with the fear that someone “smarter” than them will take their place.
In the end, a white-collar person at the second level is also poor in peace.

Level 1: The Rich Man

The rich man often has no physical need for anything.
He does not have a house—he has palaces.
He can buy whatever he wants.
He can go anywhere in the world he wants.

But he does not know why he is living in this world.
He knows that one day he will leave this world, abandoning all these sweet things.
More than that, even those closest to him who want to seize his inheritance are a threat to him.
He is surrounded by many people waiting for him to die like vultures.
He is poor in trust.

The more he cannot trust anyone, the more he tries to grow his money.

Where Is God in This Pyramid?

God, who stands at the very top of the pyramid and whom we did not assign a number to, governs all these levels from an unseen place.
This part is an understanding that belongs entirely to the individual.
It does not matter which religion you believe in, or whether you believe in God at all.

You can see that the visible parts of these levels point to an invisible part.
All forms of poverty come from our lack of connection to the source of everything we call God, and from our lack of trust in Him.

So how can we receive God’s infinite abundance?

God, the Heart, and the Greatest Lack

God is in our hearts; He exists even in people who do not believe.
You may call it by different names, such as conscience or compassion.

Whichever layer contains the most people in the world, that is where the greatest lack exists.
And a bond with the Creator is established through the duty of becoming a channel so that God can fill that emptiness.

The largest populations in the world are the destitute and the middle class.

This means the following:
the rich man at the top of the pyramid needs to trust the Creator.
On the very next level are white-collar people who should be working for God, not for the boss—yet they serve the boss instead of God.
On the third level, closer to the base, is the middle class, who need better housing and higher-quality food.
And at the bottom are the destitute, who make up the largest portion.

The Cry of the Destitute

You can imagine this place as countless hearts carrying countless fragments of God.
First, they need to eat.

These people represent the destitute.
They ask God for food.
They beg for help, secretly or openly, for this.

In this system, as you can also see in the drawing, the great majority needs food and housing.
The most important and greatest part of being in contact with God is feeding the destitute.

The Difficult Questions We Avoid

If you notice, we did not mention the following here:
Do the destitute deserve food?
Why don’t they work and earn their own money?
Most of them are uneducated and have not read even a single book.
Why should we feed them?

The destitute make underpasses, deserted streets, and places under bridges impassable, and in some countries they keep multiplying and create security problems, as if they are useful for nothing else.
They multiply very fast.
Is their dying not less sad than their living?
Why is there any need for so many people to live in such suffering?

All of these questions are fair questions.
And with our current mind, it is not possible to answer these difficult questions.
Then we will develop our mind.

Repairing the Chain

Let’s return to the chain.

When we feed the destitute at the fourth level, the number of people in the third level—the middle class—increases.
Then we can focus on the third level.

When safe housing and healthy food are guaranteed to the people at the third level, they too will now have, without stress, the kind of life you could call “physically good” that belongs to the second-level white-collar class.

At this stage, the second-level white-collar people realize that there is no longer any reason to compete, and they are freed from all their stress.
All of them now feel as rich as the rich man.

The rich man at the first level can now trust everyone.
Because no one around him is digging his pit anymore in order to have more.

This causes abundance and prosperity to flow uninterruptedly from top to bottom.

Why Don’t We Trust God?

Where is God?
Why don’t we trust Him?
We cannot see Him.
If He exists, why doesn’t He help us?

The answer to all of these questions is, to a great extent, a result that will be revealed when we feed the destitute.
Because we have never tried it, we cannot say, “This is not real.”
We can only say, “We do not know what the result of this experiment will be.”

The Experiment

I decided to do this experiment.
I took a small step to gift the meaning of life to all humanity through healthy food for everyone, safe housing for everyone, and the “love your neighbor as yourself” education.

I know it can turn into a snowball.

We will cover the earth with food forests.
In these forests, we will build homes made of natural materials through 3D printers.
Everyone who wants to continue living in this safe area will pass through the “love your neighbor as yourself” education corridors.
We will control the entire process through AI-supported camera systems.

True Justice

At this stage, if the rich man still wants to add money to his money, we can blame him.
After this stage, if the child under the bridge still stops you and asks you for money, you can punish him too.
But we cannot do that right now.

Because true justice emerges only when you guarantee the three basic needs.
Only then can you clearly know what is right and what is wrong.

If you commit a crime, if your three basic needs are guaranteed, you can find no justified reason for the crime you committed.

If your baby is hungry at home, stealing bread is often not punished by a judge.
If a rich man exports the chickpeas in his country abroad first and then imports them back into his country to earn more, this is completely legal; a judge will not punish that either.

But if the three basic needs were guaranteed, both stealing bread and exporting chickpeas and then importing them back would be behavioral disorders.
We could remove them from society forever.

When Will We See God?

The answer to the question “When will we see God?” is here.
We must repair the chain I mentioned earlier.
This is called correction.

God appears only in clean, orderly places.

The poor will always exist.
But how much abundance we live in is determined by how quickly we feed these poor people.

Feed people as much as you can.
Give them food without looking at whether they deserve it or not.

All evil comes from empty soup bowls—that is, from being far from God’s light.
This light shines as a slice of bread for the destitute; and as insecurity for the rich man.