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Poverty is man made.

 

Poverty is human nature, wealth and opulence are manmade. Being in Africa right now, I can tell you that the lack of capitalism has not taken a hatchet to poverty in any way.

 

If all the wealth in the world was put to better use than greed we could house and feed the entire planet.

 

Poverty is man made.

 

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If all the wealth in the world was put to better use than greed we could house and feed the entire planet.

find out the global gdp, then divide it by the global population, then report back your conclusion.

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Yeah, and how much of that GDP would vanish the minute the working poor no longer had to keep working in the factories and sweat-shops? Much of our economic value is at the expense of many. All simple-minded bumper-sticker platitudes aside, if you just equally divided the planet's wealth (even if you had enough to distribute), things as we know them would basically collapse.

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Yeah, and how much of that GDP would vanish the minute the working poor no longer had to keep working in the factories and sweat-shops? Much of our economic value is at the expense of many. All simple-minded bumper-sticker platitudes aside, if you just equally divided the planet's wealth (even if you had enough to distribute), things as we know them would basically collapse.

i agree - 9000$ person isn't exactly a fortune anyhow?

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Poverty is man made.

 

Poverty is human nature, wealth and opulence are manmade. Being in Africa right now, I can tell you that the lack of capitalism has not taken a hatchet to poverty in any way.

 

If all the wealth in the world was put to better use than greed we could house and feed the entire planet.

 

Poverty is man made.

 

Tenets of socialism / communism. Works great assuming nice altruistic people. It's too bad people are basically self serving, rotten little beasties.

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Does it work?

you might define "work" - historically, it's been plenty succesful in producing wealth and conquering the world - if our space exploration is ever to get anywhere significant, it'll take capitalism to underwrite it i bet.

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Does it work?

you might define "work" - historically, it's been plenty succesful in producing wealth and conquering the world - if our space exploration is ever to get anywhere significant, it'll take capitalism to underwrite it i bet.

 

A better question is, how well does it work in comparison to other economic systems. Despite it's many flaws, I'm not sure humanity has yet to find a better system -- although we keep modifying capitalism in various attempts to squash its darker, nastier aspects, to greater or lesser degrees of success.

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How about a resource based economy were our resources work for us instead of raping the land for profit.

 

Then we'd all have enough free time to spend our days lazily dancing around fields of flowers and butterflies to the sound of lutes while nature's glorious bounty provided the life of a King to one and all.

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