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The feature-length documentary The End of Poverty? won critical acclaim at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival and is narrated by actor Martin Shee...
The feature-length documentary The End of Poverty? won critical acclaim at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival and is narrated by actor Martin Sheen. It is a daring, thought-provoking and very timely documentary by filmmaker Philippe Diaz. The film takes a hard look at world poverty and challenges capitalism and the American way. In a world of plenty, why are so many families around the planet still living in abject poverty? Looking beyond the popular "solutions" for poverty, The End of Poverty? asks if the true causes of poverty today stem from a deliberate orchestration of resource misallocation started in colonial times.
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Free market? Oh god, I can't believe people fall for that shit. Learn some economics before you convince people with this. The market is not free. It is regulated by those who have money. Selling and buying stocks in large quantities cause it to fluctuate, thus, making it not free as there is a conflict of interest for those who have money. Your claim about the resources untapped all depends on which book you read. Is there a correlation to what you claim and your name? Bleak, indeed.
2) First most of the worlds natural resources remain untapped, because most of it is in countries with little freedom to trade. Second, without the U.S. the resources it uses would still be in the ground. You mistake natural resources with wealth that would dissipate without it being constantly made. Your static view of wealth is irrational.
1)Wherever there's free trade(capitalism) it has succeeded to bring prosperity. There's a wealthy minority, because only a minority of people has the freedom to trade. How can people like me advocating people to be left alone, to peacefully trade and produce, cause poverty? On the hand you want soldier and police to go force people to give away their products from their labors and that suppose to solve poverty.
3)The only way your mentality can change is if you live in the third world. Since thats not possible, and Im sorry to say this, our planet would be a lot more righteous if your kind died out. Harsh, but I could not find another alternative during my years of philosophizing.
2)one side of the planet lives in excess and another in utter misery is not an economic model that should be followed. I simply do not understand how can you think consuming 25% of the worlds resources for a 5% global population alright? I am not an arrogant person, therefore, I refuse to follow your economic scheme, as its a measure of success is based on anothers failure. I called you an idiot because you consistently refuse to see things from a rational perspective.
1) I haven't got the time to argue or educate people of your mythology. I can leave you with these words though - the reason poverty exists in this world is because of people like you. I don't mean to generalize, but it appears that the wealthy minority in this world would remain so than live in equality. The utter lack of success in a capitalistic system must be realized for change to occur (and I do want change, as I have lost much hope in humanity). To live in a system in which a family on
you are such an ignorant idiot. I long to see the day your type die out. If I had the power, i'd kill everyone who believes in your nonsense with my own hands. (at bleakfacts)
Is it a communist tradition to murder everyone who disagrees with them? Anyways you should go learn how the economy works, then you would know poverty is created by evil dictators and communists/ socialists.
what a surprise, I am Russian. If the idiot doesn't learn, you teach them again; if he persists on being an ignorant idiot, you kill him. that's what i would do.
You are Russian, so what? Does that suppose to mean you are murderous like Stalin? Any idiot can call another an idiot, but it takes someone with some intelligence to prove that person an idiot. Please educate me, exactly what's wrong with what I typed?
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socialists.
Please educate me, exactly what's wrong with what I typed?