RE: Not another morality post!!
February 18, 2019 at 11:53 am
(This post was last modified: February 18, 2019 at 12:08 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
You modify the statement because the enforcement of poverty is not actually your goal or a moral imperative so far as you're concerned. If we're addressing the contention dispassionately, taking those things away will not enforce poverty (most of us, both in the states and globally, either do not have or possess limited access to them already), and taking some of them may well decrease it. To use an explicitly socialist response, a massive reallocation of the current levels of consumption could completely eliminate global poverty, and reduce carbon emissions related to the then-unnecessary transportation of consumed goods. Even assuming that this is not a significant reduction..it could at least satisfy the twin goals of reducing poverty and impacting climate change in ways that putting pressure on rates of reproduction doesn't and couldn't.
As an unbridled capitalist counterpoint, one cannot have the fullest benefits of the free movement of capital in the absence of the free movement of labor. In order for a market response to effect the ends of discreet government effort..people would have to be free to move to wherever the market is suggesting and, once there, capable of consuming those poverty and consumption reducing goods and services. So there's the most expedient way for the free market nutball's ideas to work. Let people move with the money that invisible hands our bootstraps to environmental utopia.
Expedient ideas can also be batshit crazy, lol.
As an unbridled capitalist counterpoint, one cannot have the fullest benefits of the free movement of capital in the absence of the free movement of labor. In order for a market response to effect the ends of discreet government effort..people would have to be free to move to wherever the market is suggesting and, once there, capable of consuming those poverty and consumption reducing goods and services. So there's the most expedient way for the free market nutball's ideas to work. Let people move with the money that invisible hands our bootstraps to environmental utopia.
Expedient ideas can also be batshit crazy, lol.
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