A TV, mobile data, a maid - needs or wants for a poor family?

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The argument here is how the poor are poor due to the poor (i.e. bad) choices they make in life.....For a rebuttal of this, click HERE to see how it is not so much the poor choices they make, but the poor options/choices they are given in life that cause them to make these bad choices.....

the difficult circumstances of these families' lives could also shape their seemingly questionable choices.

What makes the task also more of an art than a science is that there is no hard and fast rule about what is a need or a want; this has evolved with the pace of Singapore's development

Qn: 'Poverty is a result of personal failure.' To what extent is this true of your society?