I agree to a large extent that poverty is the cause of crime and revolution.
A revolution is a significant change that usually occurs in a relatively short period of time. Variously defined revolutions have been happening throughout human history. They vary in terms of numbers of their participants (revolutionaries), means employed by them, duration, motivating ideology and many other aspects. They may result in a socio-political change in the socio-political institutions, or a major change in a culture or economy.
Poverty in this sense may be understood as a condition in which a person or community is deprived of, and or lacks the essentials for a minimum standard of well-being and life. These essentials may be material resources such as food, safe drinking water, and shelter, or they may be social resources such as access to information, education, health care, social status, political power, or the opportunity to develop meaningful connections with other people in society.
In Singapore, there are examples of the clear gap between the incomes of different workers such as an executive compared to menial job laborer. According to an article in February 2007 from the International Herald Tribune, it states that 'average wages were rising with the economy' but 'incomes among the bottom 30 percent of households had actually fallen'. This highlights that the problem of income disparity between our workers are becoming worse. Therefore, if left untouched, those at the bottom 30 percent would have problems obtaining the basic necessities that are required for subsistence and they could be driven to desperation and commit crimes as means of survival.
Therefore, i can conclude that to a large extent that the mother of revolution and crime is poverty as the poor people would commit crimes out of desperation although some might commit crimes for other reasons such as in the name of fun or revenge.
