Ignorance

It was Gandhi who said that one of the worst kind of violence is poverty.
I am not sure whether he meant only physical poverty.

Ignorance of the basic principles of life is maybe as bad a form of poverty!

Basic principles of life include:
that honesty brings peace of mind
that kindness is the chief recipe for happiness
that success without peace of mind is no success
that we do have a choice on how to look at things
and so on,

Ignorance of principles as listed above,
will lead to impoverishment in terms of happiness and peace of mind

I risk being called a dreamer, but I am quite sure that this ignorance cannot last much longer.
I am pretty sure about a vast upcoming wisdom revolution in which selfless service to one another becomes the most understood and most practised source of happiness throughout the world.
If humanity would miss out on this, humans may just destroy their own existence as a species.