make poverty history

make poverty history

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[letschill99]

i honestly do not understand the world

1) cancel the debt

2) give countries fair chances to get stabilised

3) for goodness sake give them the medicine they need most of which is thrown away in this country because it goes out of date

we are so selfish why do we make this so hard? its real people dying at every click not some animal far away

seriously the imbalance of the world is a complete embarrassment its a disaster

btw im 16

[domainalias]

who's brad pit?

[ctoon6]

@XXCUTlEXX07 i did not say take the wealth from the rich and give it to the poor. i said that people should form competing companies in the form of worker cooperatives with some help from the government to get the movement started.

additionally you offer no solution at all, but instead attack mine and offer no other solution. is our current system working? and who knows what life will be like in even 20 years. for all we know the us could collapse and apes will take over the world.

[XXCUTlEXX07]

@ctoon6 No offense but ur being to idealistic atm, cuz what ur saying is practically impossible to do. How on earth are you gunna get rid of poverty in less than 100 years when about 85% of people live in extreme poverty? U cant change the whole world overnight bud. All the people with the big cash are not gunna say" Hey take my money i want to eliminate poverty!" Matter of the fact is, we will never be able to fully get rid of poverty. Communist governments have tried,but did it work?

[TheOfficialTone]

@ctoon6 I know, I would love for Walmart to share it's money with me. I'm just saying that none of your ideas are practical.

[ctoon6]

@TheOfficialTone so if we did not have huge companies like walmart and their gang soaking up large amounts of profit, while the real workers do the heavy lifting, and they instead made all the decisions and split their income somewhat equally, they would be better off. im not saying we go steal walmart, but instead set up competing companies that do operate as worker cooperatives.

[ctoon6]

@TheOfficialTone most people who have seen charts that compare oil usage with population growth see a correlation between the 2. because of this our current population is not sustainable because we don't get enough energy from the sun to keep up with growth. and oil in essence is very concentrated energy from the sun.

you make a point about ownership, but what if in the future companies were owned by the workers? look up "worker cooperative".

[MinDLeSSShuFFLiNg]

yeah poverty lets go! no more over population!!!

[TheOfficialTone]

@ctoon6 I'm saying that almost everything we own comes from people in China working for under $1 an hour. First of all, in the far future the world population won't be "not too much higher". The population is growing exponentially and there will likely be at least 50 billion people in your 100 year hypothetical if not more. You're idea sounds good on paper but the only way for that to work is if the owner of the machines decides to share all his money equally among everyone else.

[ctoon6]

@TheOfficialTone do you need to be in poverty to be in the working class?

in the far future i would see that in order to maintain the current standard of living in the US for the entire world, granted the world population is not too much higher, we would work far less because machines would be more sophisticated and be able to make things faster and way cheaper.

[TheOfficialTone]

@ctoon6 If poverty is eliminated than who will be the working class?

[ctoon6]

@TheOfficialTone you should be more reluctant to use the word impossible, i believe in about 100 years poverty will be virtually eliminated, probably sooner.