RE: Poverty
October 25, 2011 at 11:19 am
(This post was last modified: October 25, 2011 at 12:28 pm by Mister Agenda.)
(October 24, 2011 at 3:50 pm)bozo Wrote: Sorry but I disagree. Poverty today needs to be understood. There is plenty of prosperity in the world, but it is not shared out evenly:
http://www.globalissues.org/issue/2/causes-of-poverty
It is very unlikely that you are not among the top 10% of income earners in the world. If you make $30,000 American, 10% of your income would double or triple the income of about 1500 people in the bottom 10% globally and lift them out of that level of poverty (extreme).
That's amazing power to change the lives of over a thousand people. And ordinary people in the developed world can do that. I leave the details to you, picking 1.500 people on the edge of starvation might not be the best long-term strategy, but it would still be more significant than anything the vast majority of people in developed countries do.
We always want to redistribute what the top 10% have, but we're in the top 10%. If we believe in it, we should lead by example.
