Relação entre pobreza, consumo e bem estar

Abstract

This article brings reflections on the categories poverty, consumption and welfare with theoretical references to analyze social policy. It draws attention to the diagnosis of the social classes of the country, noting that there are classes of income and not social class as we usually mention. To do so, it considers the Brazilian social context and the social programs directed, historically to face poverty. In this context, it emphasizes the recent conjuncture with an indication of the decline in the poverty and social inequality indexes and the increase of the budgetary resources directed to attend to the class of privileged income repeatedly benefited. It shows a problematization about the ever-widening gap in income classes, turning the poor population even the poorest and the richest and fastest growing rich population. The results of the interviews show that consumption is limited to the conditions of purchase in which the group of people who lack the most basic resources and conditions necessary and basic to live are inserted, and on the other hand the condition of the privileged group that consumes by anxiety is unlimited And not out of necessity. It is known that approximately 90% of this consumption behavior is unconscious and that the greater the stress we are subjected to in our world and the greater the fear, the greater will be the search for solid foundations and consequently more we want.