| Can and will poverty ever be eradicated from the Earth? |
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Can and will poverty ever be eradicated from the Earth?
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Asked 2 years ago
by smfrick  United States |
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Conservative, Christian, business owner, Father of 4, Home school parent.
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The very concept of poverty depends on being in a non-egalitarian society. So unless we decide to design our communities with the kind of egalitarianism found in hunter-gatherer societies, it is ineradicable. But we need to be very aware that it is OUR CHOICE to design our communities in that fashion, not a law of nature.
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[-6 points] 2 years ago by deleted user ReplyThere's no real poverty in Norway. No reason why the rest of the world should tolerate it.
Not as long as we reward people for keeping themslves in "so called" poverty.
That's really a good point, a large portion of "so called" poverty in the U.S. is perception. Last year I was was unemployed and when I filed my taxes I realized my family's total income last year was 14 K, but by no means am I in poverty, I just didn't make much money due to a slow economy. I had reserves, I had help from friends, and I did a lot of cutting back, but we are not in poverty. When I think of poverty, I think of people on food stamps and welfare, but I qualified for all that. It's really what are you willing to do for yourself. A person in poverty is unable, or unwilling to provide for himself and his family.
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[-7 points] 2 years ago by deleted user ReplyI had a friend who thought way, until the last real economic trough befoer this one, back in the nineties. Somehow being unemployed for a year and half despite excellent skills and looking for work every day moderate his attitude. It wasn't like that was the first hard times he's seen; it wasn't. It was just the one that was hard enough to re-introduce him to reality.
Thanks, Malthus. Thanks.
I do love his philosophy on this subject.
Matthew 26:11