(November 26, 2013 at 5:56 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote:(November 26, 2013 at 5:52 pm)pineapplebunnybounce Wrote: I lived in a developing nation for the majority of my life. I've seen families who have to sell their children so they can keep the rest alive. My mum was almost sold when she was a child, my aunt was almost sold when she was a newborn. All the girls in that family starved for most of their childhood and worked throughout their childhood. My uncle's sister was sold as a baby. I fucking know what poor is. Try to raise a family in poverty, then tell me money is a detriment to your happiness.
I'm not sure that you are really arguing against what I'm saying. In fact the disparity between what poverty means in most of the world and what it means here is exactly what I was trying to imprint on Brian.
I mean that's my point about the third world vs. a bunch of whiney spoiled westerners in the United States. Poverty here just doesn't mean the same thing. Not to mention that the world is already environmentally incapable of supporting the number of first world citizens that we have. People in the future will be forced to live with less regardless of whether or not they think they are entitled to cars and flat screen tvs.
My point was that the inequality we're seeing right now is benefiting a small portion of people and causing a lot of harm to a lot of people and not fixing it will just cause it to get worse. And yea, I didn't really say that in my previous posts but that's my point and that's why it shouldn't be compared to other countries nor to people who can survive on less because there are plenty that have families and even 3000 per person per year would mean one person earning 12-15k per year.
