"The mother of revolution and crime is poverty"(Aristotle)Do you agree?

According to dictionary.com, revolution is defined as a procedure or course, as if in a circuit, back to a starting point. Crime is any offense, serious wrongdoing, or sin and poverty is the state or condition of having little or no money, goods, or means of support; condition of being poor; indigence. In my opinion, I agree to a large extent that the mother of revolution and crime is poverty.

As people fell into poverty, the crime rate will inrease. In the state of starvation, they could only think of filling their stomachs. However, as there are not enough money to satisfy their basic needs for survival, some will resort to crimes in their desperation. Poverty will bring about a vicious cycle, a revolution that they could never get out from. As globalisation took place, the rich gets richer and the poor gets poorer. As the poor lacked the revenue for a good education, they will not be able to compete with the others in this competitive world. Thus, the lower paying jobs like cleaning, sweeping will end up in their hands. Furthermore, the pay for thes lower paying jobs started dipping. As indicated in the article "S'pore's dirty secret" dated July 28, 2007, the cleaners and labourers' median monthly starting pay fell 30 per cent between 1996 and 2006 - from $860 to $600. Besides from a statement by cleaner Madam Aishah, she has had not a pay rise in two years.

On the other hand, in the last 10 years, the starting salaries of all occupational groups rose, except the cleaners and labourers. Other jobs such as aircraft loaders' pay rose with experience, but this does not apply to cleaners. Due to these circumstances, it is no wonder that the poor could never be able to break out of the revolution of poverty. Thus with no good education, not enough food and money to tide them through, the resentment against the rich, the unfairness felt, crime is the other alternative as crime thrives on desperation, anger. Even for those with integrity, they may just resort to stealing for an attempt to survive.
There are other factors that contributed to crime like peer influence. However I felt that they do not really contribute to revolution as peer influence is only short term. I believe that after being caught once or as one gets older, he will have a more mature thinking and be able to differentiate right and wrong. It does not really contribute to revolution as for peer influence, it all comes down to a matter of choices. If you really want to get out of crime, you can. But for poverty, it is not within our control.

For other factors such as violence, lust, greed that are the roots to crime, I felt that all these are all within one's control. They are not essential as they could be do without, without causing any trouble or uncomfort to the person. It is a matter of the person's will, as doing without will not cause their death unlike lack of food and water, which is the result of poverty.

In conclusion, I feel that poverty is the mother of revolution and crime as poverty is not within our control as it is nearly impossible to get out of it due to class divide, thus leading to revolution. As poverty will cause lack of basic survival needs such as food and water, crime will be resorted to gain their survival, thus i agree to a large extent.