Eliminating poverty is an impossibility. You would either need a pretty damn good world government or a heap load of government systems that magically eliminated poverty in use by every country in the world. Then, you have the problem of natural disasters, war, famine, drought, deluge, etc. These problems cannot be eliminated and, unless every single country had a magnificent strategy for boosting the economy when such disasters happened and magical hovercrafts to transport goods in and out of war zones and disaster zones, it ain't gonna happen. (I said ain't gonna. I feel like a rebel. How fucking nerdy is that?)
I love ideals like this, but I cannot even fathom them. There is always something that will leave at least some living without basic means to survive in a healthy manner. I will say this, though. If you're going to try, start with the slums of South America and basically everywhere in Africa. That's fucking poverty! I think the chances of me starving to death in the United States, with or without a job, are infinitesimally slim.
I love ideals like this, but I cannot even fathom them. There is always something that will leave at least some living without basic means to survive in a healthy manner. I will say this, though. If you're going to try, start with the slums of South America and basically everywhere in Africa. That's fucking poverty! I think the chances of me starving to death in the United States, with or without a job, are infinitesimally slim.
