On Poverty
 

On Poverty

The sole cause of poverty is the inflation of the human population. When people multiply faster than wealth can be created the end result will always be poverty. Furthermore, the planet cannot sustain billions of people for an extended period of time. We will run out of resources far sooner than we can advance the resources of other planets and extra-planetary bodies. If we continue to inflate at the current rate, future generations will be digging in garbage dumps as if they are gold mines. When they run out of garbage to mine, future generations will have nothing left at all and that will be the end of civilization, of our hard work, and of the achievements of all the enlightened minds of past generations of life.

All the hard work and toil we have exerted will have been for nothing. Every time a poor person has a child she or he has given birth to new poverty, pure and simple. The welfare system must be eliminated at all cost. This seems directly opposed to the ideals of individual liberty, however, liberty without responsibility is anarchy and chaos. So, until such time when we have a society worthy of liberty, capable and willing to be responsible for their actions and well being, if responsibility is ignored it will have to be imposed. Liberty is not for the animals or the savages as such will just trample it under foot. [URL=http://www.openpress.com/?a=articles&code=01&id=8]Entire article[/URL]

Max

Re: On Poverty
 

Poverty is simply the result of human inequality, which in itself is hardwired into our biology as part of our social conditioning - to live and exist in heirarchies.

Poverty has *nothing* to do with the size of the human population - there has always been poverty in human society because there has always been an inequality of wealth, distributed unevenly amnog the social heirarchies.

And welcome to the chronicles-network, PRbot. :)

Re: On Poverty
 

An old thread but an interesting one.

I tend to agree with both comments though, overpopulation puts incredible pressure on dwindling resources. What Lost Soul said is correct children born into poverty find it almost impossible to break out of their situation. Children are growing up with parents who have never had a job, have no work ethic, so continues the need to remain on welfare, therefor adding to the pressure of governments having to provide for people who are unable to provide for themselves. As our population has grown and seems set on continued growth more and more people require others to aid them because they cannot help themselves.
In many instances there can be no fault, people do not chose this way of life, but they are unable to break out of their situation.
Yet as Brian said there has always been inequality and unequal distribution of wealth.
We also have the situation now of developing countries and countries like China who seem to have embrassed modernization and development, who have the money to outbid in the race for precious resources.
As our resources dwindle, the price will rise and this will affect everyone.
In Australia this year we have had price fluctuations on just about every comodity, from fuel to food and water. I have never know a year like it. Added to this we have had increased interest rates on home loans, people are going to the wall, they are stretched to the limit.
I read an article only last year a suvey done on children in England, short titled "Listening to children" It discussed with children how poverty affects them, it was one of the most interesting article I have read. It stated that in 1997 England had one of the poorest records of child poverty in all the developed world. Tony Blair announced in 1998 that he would eradicate child poverty within 20 years, at that time there were 4.5 million (about 35% of all chilren in the UK) living below the poverty line.
Wonder how he went!!!