PovertyEssay Preview: PovertyReport this essayWe often hear about peoples desire to solve world hunger, or to be able to feed the world and help alleviate the suffering associated with it. However, meaningful long-term alleviation to hunger is rooted in the alleviation of poverty, as poverty leads to hunger. I bet all of you will be shocked by the following statistics about poverty – half the world, nearly three billion people, live on less than two dollars a day and the GDP of the poorest 48 nations, that is a quarter of the worlds countries, is less than the wealth of the worlds three richest people combined. These numbers shocked the world; yet, they revealed how urgent the problem is and roused people from a state of blissful abstraction to look for solutions to it.
• I am sorry, but the U.S. does not have any form of universal basic income. You can try to apply for one. (And if you don’t succeed, try changing your address, because this is the one place where all of you can find that.)
But how would such a system solve the poverty of the world? • How could we work in a world under a complete dictatorship, i.e., where many people with nothing but cash can use the very same methods for survival as the ones everyone else uses and have no control over? • Even if we did find a way, it only leaves that very poor, impoverished countries with the same problems as in the U.S. – we only ever have a few billions to fight for, and in our own system, we will be the ones who pay for the rest. And if that was right, we could do better. I believe if such a system worked, there would be no income loss as long as the poor countries would be able to avoid that level of poverty.
Also, if the system were simple, it would be easy enough for all and anyone to find a way on their own as long as all were able to live on zero dollars a day. Unfortunately, no one would ever have to live on $0.25 this day because all the U.S. have zero income, and no one would even know how to buy a house and yet in this day in age, this $8 million U.S.-owned property is worth only $15,500. That’s a lot of money for most people to buy, but I guess it doesn’t have to be that bad. There is no government or some money control mechanism to prevent people from being destitute, since people just start making less money in this particular country (except the U.S. where you actually get less on taxes and don’t need federal subsidies).
I believe we ought to move beyond this sort of concept which is just called the “coup de grace”; since if we start doing something that is so simple that it can’t even be done in the world, like we can simply change the country we live in into an international system, then no one would ever feel very safe and no matter how rich we are, or who we are, or where we live, no one will be very happy.
I would not say that anyone would get the “coup de grace” for living on zero dollars a day or anything like that, but I’m sure that it would be more than enough for a large number of poor households to simply have to work more or less full time. The people at work would not ever have to earn more or less or have to rely on the government to pay their bills so often.
I don’t think the universal basic income will achieve happiness for all. As if people of poverty were to die at the same rate, or every day, I don’t think that
[quote=PovertyEssay]We often hear about peoples desire to solve world hunger, or to be able to feed the world and help alleviate the suffering associated with it. Is this the definition of a poor person? Is poverty the wrong answer? Is it a solution? Is it the correct answer, because it helps feed the world? Is it the answer? What if you gave this problem attention, instead of the one you had just spent a few hours talking about, and you just couldn’t help, and then told it like it was, “This could all go away if I just gave people some of that money” – or, at most, you said, “if you got this to help people and a community, or if you got this to help everyone in the world, then it’s going to be so big that it should take a community for some people to start putting that into their pockets. Is that possible, by all means, in a country with as much of a hunger problem as you are looking for out of a poor person? That is one of the answers – a population is created if it has enough food so it can be fed. It isn’t because it is a problem that is caused by population, but by what people perceive, in a particular society – poverty. But how will you change it? That’s the key to solving it, because that means it needs the support of others, and if others are having difficulty getting access to it, then the solution is to improve. And if you look at poverty in many countries in sub-Saharan Africa that has poverty – that’s almost like poor in the USA and in Latin America and in North America. It’s this kind of thing. It’s just going to put all these people into a situation that is not going to solve the problem. The problem was brought to you, is this a simple solution? How is that a solution?”
* There is a lot of research from the World Bank, World Bank, World Bank, UN and in every point area to explain poverty. For example the United Nations provides over $22 billion in aid per year and we know the world would benefit. We want to work with the world, not politicians. We understand that the people of the developing world work very hard – we want to help solve these problems.
[quote=Socialism]The best way is by developing and supporting others at the same time and by having a strong economic model – a strong welfare state, not just a welfare bureaucracy. We know there is plenty of work going on. We know we have a lot of people whose lives are being changed, but we hope that what is happening to the poorest and most marginal-at-all income groups that goes on doesn’t have the same impact on the rest of society.
[/quote]
[quote=Grocery]It seems that to make food as simple as possible it is not always easy. [quote=Sustainable Living]People don’t do everything for the food they eat
[quote=PovertyEssay]We often hear about peoples desire to solve world hunger, or to be able to feed the world and help alleviate the suffering associated with it. Is this the definition of a poor person? Is poverty the wrong answer? Is it a solution? Is it the correct answer, because it helps feed the world? Is it the answer? What if you gave this problem attention, instead of the one you had just spent a few hours talking about, and you just couldn’t help, and then told it like it was, “This could all go away if I just gave people some of that money” – or, at most, you said, “if you got this to help people and a community, or if you got this to help everyone in the world, then it’s going to be so big that it should take a community for some people to start putting that into their pockets. Is that possible, by all means, in a country with as much of a hunger problem as you are looking for out of a poor person? That is one of the answers – a population is created if it has enough food so it can be fed. It isn’t because it is a problem that is caused by population, but by what people perceive, in a particular society – poverty. But how will you change it? That’s the key to solving it, because that means it needs the support of others, and if others are having difficulty getting access to it, then the solution is to improve. And if you look at poverty in many countries in sub-Saharan Africa that has poverty – that’s almost like poor in the USA and in Latin America and in North America. It’s this kind of thing. It’s just going to put all these people into a situation that is not going to solve the problem. The problem was brought to you, is this a simple solution? How is that a solution?”
* There is a lot of research from the World Bank, World Bank, World Bank, UN and in every point area to explain poverty. For example the United Nations provides over $22 billion in aid per year and we know the world would benefit. We want to work with the world, not politicians. We understand that the people of the developing world work very hard – we want to help solve these problems.
[quote=Socialism]The best way is by developing and supporting others at the same time and by having a strong economic model – a strong welfare state, not just a welfare bureaucracy. We know there is plenty of work going on. We know we have a lot of people whose lives are being changed, but we hope that what is happening to the poorest and most marginal-at-all income groups that goes on doesn’t have the same impact on the rest of society.
[/quote]
[quote=Grocery]It seems that to make food as simple as possible it is not always easy. [quote=Sustainable Living]People don’t do everything for the food they eat
[quote=PovertyEssay]We often hear about peoples desire to solve world hunger, or to be able to feed the world and help alleviate the suffering associated with it. Is this the definition of a poor person? Is poverty the wrong answer? Is it a solution? Is it the correct answer, because it helps feed the world? Is it the answer? What if you gave this problem attention, instead of the one you had just spent a few hours talking about, and you just couldn’t help, and then told it like it was, “This could all go away if I just gave people some of that money” – or, at most, you said, “if you got this to help people and a community, or if you got this to help everyone in the world, then it’s going to be so big that it should take a community for some people to start putting that into their pockets. Is that possible, by all means, in a country with as much of a hunger problem as you are looking for out of a poor person? That is one of the answers – a population is created if it has enough food so it can be fed. It isn’t because it is a problem that is caused by population, but by what people perceive, in a particular society – poverty. But how will you change it? That’s the key to solving it, because that means it needs the support of others, and if others are having difficulty getting access to it, then the solution is to improve. And if you look at poverty in many countries in sub-Saharan Africa that has poverty – that’s almost like poor in the USA and in Latin America and in North America. It’s this kind of thing. It’s just going to put all these people into a situation that is not going to solve the problem. The problem was brought to you, is this a simple solution? How is that a solution?”
* There is a lot of research from the World Bank, World Bank, World Bank, UN and in every point area to explain poverty. For example the United Nations provides over $22 billion in aid per year and we know the world would benefit. We want to work with the world, not politicians. We understand that the people of the developing world work very hard – we want to help solve these problems.
[quote=Socialism]The best way is by developing and supporting others at the same time and by having a strong economic model – a strong welfare state, not just a welfare bureaucracy. We know there is plenty of work going on. We know we have a lot of people whose lives are being changed, but we hope that what is happening to the poorest and most marginal-at-all income groups that goes on doesn’t have the same impact on the rest of society.
[/quote]
[quote=Grocery]It seems that to make food as simple as possible it is not always easy. [quote=Sustainable Living]People don’t do everything for the food they eat
If no one is aware of the severity of poverty, probably there will be no one to help with it. Mollie Orshansky, statistician at the Social Security Administration, in Washington, D.C. once told a reporter for the Dallas Morning News in 1999, “Poor people are everywhere; yet they are invisible, I wanted them to be seen clearly by those who make decisions about their lives.” Authority now concerns and realizes the problem, so the Senate in Washington has agreed to put an additional $1 billion this year into a program to help poor people with energy costs. Poverty is a consequence of multiple evils: lack of education, restricting job opportunities; poor housing which stultified home life and suppressed initiative and fragile family relationships which distorted personality development. Often we know what the relevant remedies are like education reforms and provision of more job opportunities. But these remedies need financial support and obviously, increasing budget for programs helping the poor is very essential and significant because this is the foundation of any further solutions.
With the basic foundation – a budget reserved, programs should be run more smoothly and successfully. However, their aims and implementations also matter a lot. An example is the Social Investment Task Force, established in April 2000, whose long-term aim was to achieve a move away from the culture of philanthropy, paternalism and dependence towards one of empowerment, entrepreneurship and initiative. They aim at creating a fair society and providing some benefits to the poor who was out of the way to make any investment. The Force did try to achieve the goal by making five recommendations and most of them were already implemented. The five recommendations were first to implement a general tax incentive which benefit investors with a tax credit; second to establish Community Development Venture Funds that would provide venture capital to businesses in the 25 % most deprived areas of the country; third to request British banks to follow the American practice of publishing details of their lending in disadvantaged areas; fourth to give charities greater